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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking IV

Posted on 2012 February 19 by

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture “Segregation and Peer Effects”, Part 2: “Schelling’s Segregation Model”: Schelling built a model and executed it in order to analyse the empirical phenomenon of segregation … Continue reading →

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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking III

Posted on 2012 February 14 by

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 4: “Using and Understanding Data”: The lesson today is actually not in the course, it’s more about the course … Continue reading →

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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking II

Posted on 2012 February 12 by

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 3: “Thinking more clearly”: This part points out that modelling is about naming the parts that are relevant to the purpose of the model … Continue reading →

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Lecture Notes on Model Thinking I

Posted on 2012 February 11 by

Some lecture notes/ scribble on Model Thinking by Scott E. Page. Lecture Intro, Part 2: “Intelligent Citizens of the World”: George Box: ‘essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful … Continue reading →

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