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<p class="MsoNormal">And yea for ABMs.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of "thompnickson2@gmail.com" <thompnickson2@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 8:09 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam@redfish.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Influential Covid-19 model shouldn't guide U.S. policies, critics say - STAT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Hi, all, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/17/influential-covid-19-model-uses-flawed-methods-shouldnt-guide-policies-critics-say/">https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/17/influential-covid-19-model-uses-flawed-methods-shouldnt-guide-policies-critics-say/</a>
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<p>This article is interesting for two reasons, first, because it relates to a model that we have been using in our thinking about covid19, and second because it relates to ambiguities in what constitutes a successful prediction.
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<p>Nick <o:p></o:p></p>
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