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Introduction: Occam’s Razor (SOT - Fit for Purpose workshop introduction)
Citation:
Wambaugh, J. Introduction: Occam’s Razor (SOT - Fit for Purpose workshop introduction). Presented at Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 12 - 16, 2017. https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5084263
Impact/Purpose:
This is the introductory talk for the session “Fit for Purpose: ?Using Computational Models for Risk” at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
Description:
Mathematical models provide important, reproducible, and transparent information for risk-based decision making. However, these models must be constructed to fit the needs of the problem to be solved. A “fit for purpose” model is an abstraction of a complicated problem that allows us to reach a decision. A fit for purpose model is defined as much by what is omitted as what is included in the model. We have to accept that there will always be areas in need of better data and models -- our knowledge will always be incomplete, and thus we wish to extrapolate.
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