Extracting falsifiable predictions from sloppy models

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1115, Issue , 2007, Pages 203-211

  Gutenkunst, Ryan N ^a   Casey, Fergal P ^b   Waterfall, Joshua J ^c   Myers, Christopher R ^c   Sethna, James P ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Cornell Center for Materials Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance analysis; Monte Carlo; Prediction uncertainties; Sloppy models; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ASSAY; BIOLOGY; COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COVARIANCE; EXTRACTION; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; STANDARD; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 36248970060     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1407.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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