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 ======What models are for?======
-As basis of understanding
-Lord Kelvin in [[https://books.google.com/books?id=XWQSAAAAIAAJ|Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and The Wave Theory of Light]]
+  * As basis of understanding
+[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thomson,_1st_Baron_Kelvin|Lord Kelvin]] in [[https://books.google.com/books?id=XWQSAAAAIAAJ|Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and The Wave Theory of Light]]
 > I am never content until I have constructed a mechanical model of the subject I am studying. If I succeed in making one, I understand; otherwise I do not.
+  * Prediction
+  * Testing of hypothesis
+Model describes a way the data are generated.
+Model are usually [[notes:parametric_test|parametrized]].

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