A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 31455789.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-11865-8 and PMC identifier 6712000.
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Abstract
While the crisis of statistics has made it to the headlines, that of mathematical modelling hasn’t. Something can be learned comparing the two, and looking at other instances of production of numbers.Sociology of quantification and post-normal science can help.