pseudomodel

noun

pseudomodel

noun

Etymology From pseudo- + model.

1

An incomplete or inaccurate version of a model.

  • One of the major problems in applying bootstrap to model building procedures consists in choosing an appropriate pseudomodel.1992, Raoul LePage, Lynne Billard ·, Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap, page 386:
  • A pseudomodel M is called a model of S if all theorems provable in S are true in M.1979, Andrzej Mostowski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Foundational Studies: Selected Works, volume 2, page 352:
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  • So we lean toward one side in this discussion: toward rejecting pseudomodels that claim to be universal, and rejecting an ethnic fatalism that would also imply a historical fatalism.1995, Catherine Samary, “Introduction”, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 31:

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