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A standard form of citation of this article is:

Troitzsch, Klaus G. (). 'Not All Explanations Predict Satisfactorily, and Not All Good Predictions Explain'. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 12(1)10 <https://www.jasss.org/12/1/10.html>.

The following can be copied and pasted into a Bibtex bibliography file, for use with the LaTeX text processor:

@article{troitzsch,
title = {Not All Explanations Predict Satisfactorily, and Not All Good Predictions Explain},
author = {Troitzsch, Klaus G.},
journal = {Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation},
ISSN = {1460-7425},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
pages = {10},
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URL = {https://www.jasss.org/12/1/10.html},
keywords = {[No keywords]},
abstract = {This short comment on Epstein's (2008) paper and on the response by Thompson and Derr argues that the symmetry between explanation and prediction cannot satisfactorily be discussed without making clear what prediction means - depending on which connotations the authors have with 'prediction' their arguments can or cannot be accepted.},
}

The following can be copied and pasted into a text file, which can then be imported into a reference database that supports imports using the RIS format, such as Reference Manager and EndNote.


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