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Some Technical Thoughts on Modeling

Dynamical Systems 2015-04-07 v1

Abstract

This paper is more an essay than a report. There is a gentle introduction to some issues in modeling, followed by the use of steepest descent methods to develop a model as contrasted to using such methods to solve one already in hand, as in [1]. Three levels are discussed: fitting functions to model given data, fitting an ODE to model given data, and more briefly, fitting a PDE to model given data. Specific examples are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01371,
  title  = {Some Technical Thoughts on Modeling},
  author = {Nikolas O. Aksamit and Don H. Tucker and James F. Tucker},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01371},
  year   = {2015}
}

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