Re: st: All models are wrong...

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 04:23 PM 10/15/2005, you wrote:

> The quote "All models are wrong, some models are useful" by George Box,
> may be found in his paper "Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific
> Model
> Building," in Lanner and Wilkerson, eds., Robustness in Statistics (NY,
> Academic Press, 1979), pp. 201-236.
>                                                   ______________
and in:

 "Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong 
do they have to be to not be useful". -George Box and Norman Draper, 
Empirical Model Building and Response Surfaces, John Wiley, 1987,pg. 74.

Fred

Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases
Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125     Fax (316) 263-0761
fwolfe@arthritis-research.org


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