Models and simulations in material science: Two cases without error bars

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 339-355

  Wenmackers, Sylvia ^a   Vanpoucke, Danny E P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Empirical models; Philosophy of science; Scientific models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864020288     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2011.00519.x     Document Type: Article

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