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In many instances in biological research the qualitative message of a mathematical model is more important than the quantitative results. Quantitative verification of a model is often impossible because of the experimental difficulties and the number of parameters involved.
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Meszéna, G. (1993). Path Analysis in General Control Theory. In: Schuster, S., Rigoulet, M., Ouhabi, R., Mazat, JP. (eds) Modern Trends in Biothermokinetics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2962-0_35
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