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... variables , and its slope is called the correlation coefficient . There are elaborate mathematical tech- niques for doing this as accurately as possible , but doing it by eye is likely to be good enough in most cases . Moreover ...
... variables , and its slope is called the correlation coefficient . There are elaborate mathematical tech- niques for doing this as accurately as possible , but doing it by eye is likely to be good enough in most cases . Moreover ...
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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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