Adequacy for purpose: The best deal a model can get

Modern Schoolman

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 295-301

  Alexandrova, Anna ^a  

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EID: 84860359774     PISSN: 00268402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/schoolman2010873/411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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