Continuous modelling is the
mathematical
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
practice of applying a
model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , .
Models can be divided in ...
to
continuous data (data which has a potentially infinite number, and divisibility, of attributes). They often use
differential equations
and are converse to
discrete modelling.
Modelling is generally broken down into several steps:
* Making assumptions about the data: The modeller decides what is influencing the data and what can be safely ignored.
* Making equations to fit the assumptions.
* Solving the equations.
* Verifying the results: Various statistical tests are applied to the data and the model and compared.
* If the model passes the verification progress, putting it into practice.
* If the model fails the verification progress, altering it and subjecting it again to verification; if it persists in fitting the data more poorly than a competing model, it is abandoned.
References
External links
Definition by the UK National Physical Laboratory
Applied mathematics
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