A tale of two methods

Synthese

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 575-592

  Winsberg, Eric ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Experiments; Methodology; Models; Simulations; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650508255     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9437-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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