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One goal of creating a model is to organize thoughts, ideas, or assumptions into a coherent form so as to draw out the logical implications of the basic premises of the model. A second reason to create a model is to empirically test a hypothesis or empirically measure the magnitude of some effect. The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate the usefulness of precise modeling for empirical estimation.
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Tassier, T. (2013). Econometrics and Epidemiology. In: The Economics of Epidemiology. SpringerBriefs in Public Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38120-1_5
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