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Crafty Modelling

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Trendy phrases generate confusion. This is because everyone thinks it fun to use them, but not everyone uses them in the same way. “The art of modelling” is no exception. I shall try to demonstrate this by releasing a few skeletons from my own cupboard.

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  1. David G. Kendall
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  1. Statistics Program Department of Mathematics, University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    J. Gani

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Kendall, D.G. (1986). Crafty Modelling. In: Gani, J. (eds) The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling. Applied Probability, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8631-5_1

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