Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us
Inga Holmdahl, Caroline O. Buckee
Abstract
Wrong but Useful Mechanistic epidemiologic models are designed to help us systematically examine the implications of various assumptions about a highly nonlinear process that is hard to predict usi...
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