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Chapter 2 Principal Model Types

generally combine the two taxonomies into a single or hybrid class: the

knowledge-base model.

2.1 Model and Event State Categorization

There is a more fundamental classification of models based on the way

model states are generated and how model variables are handled. Table 2.2

outlines the partitioning of such classification, which divides models into

discrete or continuous and into deterministic or stochastic.

Technically, the classification of models as discrete or continuous

refers to the model’s composite variable organization, but in actual fact

and practice the term is used to describe the model’s treatment of