| Description |
1 online resource (273 pages) |
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data file rda |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Part I Meeting models -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain -- Part II The rules -- 3 Mind the framings: Match purpose and context -- 4 Mind the hubris: Complexity can misfire -- 5 Mind the assumptions: Quantify uncertainty and assess sensitivity -- 6 Mind the consequences: Quantification in economic and public policy -- 7 Mind the unknowns: Exploring the politics of ignorance in mathematical models |
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Part III The rules in practice -- 8 Sensitivity auditing: A practical checklist for auditing decision-relevant models -- 9 Mathematical modelling: Lessons from composite indicators -- 10 Mathematical modelling, rule-making, and the COVID-19 pandemic -- 11 In the twilight of probability: COVID-19 and the dilemma of the decision maker -- 12 Models as metaphors -- Epilogue: Those special models: A political economy of mathematical modelling -- Index |
| Summary |
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume brings together a diverse range of contributions to look beyond the strictly mathematical view of modelling and instead examine the social nature of models, their biases and responsibilities. |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Subject |
Mathematical models -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Di Fiore, Monica.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saltelli, Andrea The Politics of Modelling Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023 9780198872412 |
| ISBN |
0198872429 |
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9780198872429 (electronic book) |
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