Download or read book Empirical Model Building written by James R. Thompson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1989-02 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on approach to the basic principles of empirical model building. Includes a series of real-world statistical problems illustrating modeling skills and techniques. Covers models of growth and decay, systems where competition and interaction add to the complexity of the model, and discusses both classical and nonclassical data analysis methods.