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... variables , which can be in real three - dimensional space , but also with a point representing very many variables , which would have to be located in a multi - dimensional space that is impossible for the human mind to visualize ...
... variables , which can be in real three - dimensional space , but also with a point representing very many variables , which would have to be located in a multi - dimensional space that is impossible for the human mind to visualize ...
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... variables , they may be used to predict what happens at some future time . These are called predictive models . Manipulation of the variables in a model , or simulation , is intended to provide answers to the critical question , ' What ...
... variables , they may be used to predict what happens at some future time . These are called predictive models . Manipulation of the variables in a model , or simulation , is intended to provide answers to the critical question , ' What ...
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... variables such as human preferences and the oddities of individual behaviour . Mathematical models and computer simulations of human behaviour have been developed and applied , ap- parently with reasonable success , to the prediction of ...
... variables such as human preferences and the oddities of individual behaviour . Mathematical models and computer simulations of human behaviour have been developed and applied , ap- parently with reasonable success , to the prediction of ...
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