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Mathematical Models for Society and Biology, 2nd Edition
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Mathematical Models for Society and Biology, 2nd Edition

by Edward Beltrami
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
8h 12m
English
Academic Press
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Afterthoughts on Modeling

The goal of modeling is to gain insight into some problem that occurs in the natural world of real events. In a few cases there is sufficient data and enough understanding of the actual processes that it makes sense to test the model against numbers obtained from the field and to make predictions that can be verified in a relatively unambiguous manner, as in the crab model of Chapter 1. In other cases this is not possible, because a trustworthy database either is too meager or doesn’t exist or, as is the case in the restricted-access fishery model of Chapter 8, because an understanding of the underlying dynamics is inadequate. In the latter case, a model can still be useful, however, in providing a plausible metaphor ...

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ISBN: 9780124046245