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9 October 2019Alternative Risk Transfer

Resisting the seduction of models

The statistician George E.P. Box’s conclusion in 1987 that “all models are wrong” inspires little hope on first inspection, but he did offer some solace with the rhetorical follow-up “how wrong do they have to be to not be useful?”.

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