Trade-offs in model-building: a more target-oriented approach

Matthewson, Oliver John

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Trade-offs in model-building: a more target-oriented approach

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2011

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Matthewson, Oliver John

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Pergamon Press

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In his 1966 paper " The Strategy of model-building in Population Biology", Richard Levins argues that no single model in population biology can be maximally realistic, precise and general at the same time. This is because these desirable model properties

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Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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