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[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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The quote "All models are wrong, some models are useful" by George Box,
may be found in his paper "Robustness in the Strategy of Scientific  
Model
Building," in Lanner and Wilkerson, eds., Robustness in Statistics (NY,
Academic Press, 1979), pp. 201-236.
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Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
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