“Model” and “modeling” are the most abused, distorted, misleading, selfserving terms in the contemporary scientific dictionary. Taking a hard look at this very soft and messy business is most commendable.
—Rudolf Kalman, p. 1292, discussion of What is a statistical model? by Peter McCullagh
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2011, June 10). “Model” [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/model/
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