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scientific model
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scientific representation aiming to understand, define, quantify, visualize, or simulate the world
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- Subclass of
- conceptual model
- Has part
- conceptual model
- Has use
- decision support system
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- manifestation of
- scientific modeling
- has cause
- idealization
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Encyclopedic overview
Example scientific modelling. A schematic of chemical and transport processes related to atmospheric composition.
Scientific modelling is an activity that produces models representing empirical objects, phenomena, and physical processes, to make a particular part or feature of the world easier to understand, define, quantify, visualize, or simulate. It requires selecting and identifying relevant aspects of a situation in the real world and then developing a model to replicate a system with those features. Different types of models may be used for different purposes, such as conceptual models to better understand, operational models to operationalize, mathematical models to quantify, computational models to simulate, and graphical models to visualize the subject.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “scientific model” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.