A tentative taxonomy for predictive models in relation to their falsifiability

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1954, 2011, Pages 4149-4161

  Viceconti, Marco ^a  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedicine; Falsification; Integrative models; Predictive models

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOCHEMISTRY; CRIME; NEURAL NETWORKS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; RESEARCH;

BAYESIAN MODEL; BIOCHEMICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICINE; BIOPHYSICAL MODEL; CAUSE-EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS; FALSIFICATION; INTEGRATIVE MODELS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; PREDICTIVE MODELS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCIENCE;

EID: 80955148324     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0227     Document Type: Article

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