Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

A short comment on statistical versus mathematical modelling

  • Andrea Saltelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11865-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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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.