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Modeling Relationships
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Appreciate the importance of including and accurately reecting
key relationships in your models.
• Learn how logical functions can be used to capture important
dependencies.
• Learn how to include simple correlation structures between variables.
• Learn how to capture more complex correlations through the use of
copulas.
• Learn how to t correlation patterns to data.
• Learn how to use regression models to capture relationships in your
models.
• See an example of how to model the uncertainties inherent in regres-
sion models.
• See how the Envelope method can be used to combine ex ...