Add to ORKGDespite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exemplify every theoretical virtue. One explanation for this is the existence of tradeoffs: relationships of attenuation that constrain the extent to which models can have such desirable qualities. In this paper, we characterize three types of tradeoffs theorists may confront. These characterizations are then used to examine the relationships between parameter precision and two types of generality. We show that several of these relationships exhibit tradeoffs and discuss what consequences those tradeoffs have for theoretical practice
Most attempts to justify the use of idealized models to explain appeal to the accuracy of the model ...
Journal ArticleIn 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building ...
This paper deals with problems that vagueness raises for choices involving evaluative tradeoffs. I f...
Despite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exempli...
Despite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exempli...
Roald Hoffmann and other theorists claim that we ought to use highly idealized chemical models (“qua...
This article offers a characterization of what I call multiple-models juxtaposition, a strategy for ...
This dissertation is concerned with the in-principle limitations on mathematical modelling in scienc...
This paper discusses prescriptive models for an individual's or society's tradeoffs between differen...
Ecologist Richard Levins (1966, 1968) argues population biologists must trade-off the generality, re...
In his 1966 paper " The Strategy of model-building in Population Biology", Richard Levins argues tha...
Generality is a defining modelling virtue of the economic tradition. It is often assumed that genera...
In 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building in population b...
Evolutionary trade-offs: emergent constraints and their adaptive consequences Trade-offs are widel...
Many theories of human judgment and decision making assume that people make tradeoffs. These theorie...
Most attempts to justify the use of idealized models to explain appeal to the accuracy of the model ...
Journal ArticleIn 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building ...
This paper deals with problems that vagueness raises for choices involving evaluative tradeoffs. I f...
Despite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exempli...
Despite their best efforts, scientists may be unable to construct models that simultaneously exempli...
Roald Hoffmann and other theorists claim that we ought to use highly idealized chemical models (“qua...
This article offers a characterization of what I call multiple-models juxtaposition, a strategy for ...
This dissertation is concerned with the in-principle limitations on mathematical modelling in scienc...
This paper discusses prescriptive models for an individual's or society's tradeoffs between differen...
Ecologist Richard Levins (1966, 1968) argues population biologists must trade-off the generality, re...
In his 1966 paper " The Strategy of model-building in Population Biology", Richard Levins argues tha...
Generality is a defining modelling virtue of the economic tradition. It is often assumed that genera...
In 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building in population b...
Evolutionary trade-offs: emergent constraints and their adaptive consequences Trade-offs are widel...
Many theories of human judgment and decision making assume that people make tradeoffs. These theorie...
Most attempts to justify the use of idealized models to explain appeal to the accuracy of the model ...
Journal ArticleIn 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building ...
This paper deals with problems that vagueness raises for choices involving evaluative tradeoffs. I f...