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Mathematical Model

A mathematical model is an abstract representation that uses mathematical language to describe a system's behavior. Mathematical models are commonly used in fields like physics, biology, engineering, economics, and social sciences. They can take various forms like dynamical systems, statistical models, differential equations, or game theoretic models. Mathematical modeling problems are classified as black box or white box models depending on the available prior information about the system. Computer simulations have become useful for mathematically modeling natural and human systems to better understand their operations.

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Mathematical Model

A mathematical model is an abstract representation that uses mathematical language to describe a system's behavior. Mathematical models are commonly used in fields like physics, biology, engineering, economics, and social sciences. They can take various forms like dynamical systems, statistical models, differential equations, or game theoretic models. Mathematical modeling problems are classified as black box or white box models depending on the available prior information about the system. Computer simulations have become useful for mathematically modeling natural and human systems to better understand their operations.

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Mathematical model

A mathematical model is an abstract model that uses mathematical language to describe the
behaviour of a system.

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Computers & Math

Computer Modeling
Mathematical Modeling
Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science
Computational Biology

Mathematical models are used particularly in the natural sciences and engineering disciplines
(such as physics, biology, and electrical engineering) but also in the social sciences (such as
economics, sociology and political science); physicists, engineers, computer scientists, and
economists use mathematical models most extensively.
Eykhoff (1974) defined a mathematical model as 'a representation of the essential aspects of an
existing system (or a system to be constructed) which presents knowledge of that system in
usable form'.
Mathematical models can take many forms, including but not limited to dynamical systems,
statistical models, differential equations, or game theoretic models.
These and other types of models can overlap, with a given model involving a variety of abstract
structures.
There are six basic groups of variables: decision variables, input variables, state variables,
exogenous variables, random variables, and output variables.
Since there can be many variables of each type, the variables are generally represented by
vectors.
Mathematical modelling problems are often classified into black box or white box models,
according to how much a priori information is available of the system.
A black-box model is a system of which there is no a priori information available.
A white-box model (also called glass box or clear box) is a system where all necessary
information is available.

Practically all systems are somewhere between the black-box and white-box models, so this
concept only works as an intuitive guide for approach.
Usually it is preferable to use as much a priori information as possible to make the model more
accurate.
For more information about the topic Mathematical model, read the full article at
Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Computer simulations have become a useful part of mathematical modelling of many natural
systems in physics, chemistry and biology, human systems in economics, psychology, and social
science and in the process of engineering new technology, to gain insight into the operation of
those systems.
Traditionally, the formal modeling of systems has been via a mathematical model, which
attempts to find analytical solutions to problems which enables the prediction of the behaviour of
the system from a set of parameters and initial conditions.
Computer simulations build on, and are a useful adjunct to purely mathematical models in
science, technology and entertainment.
The reliability and the trust people put in computer simulations depends on the validity of the
simulation model.

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