Model vs Backtesting - What's the difference?
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A person who serves as a subject for artwork or fashion, usually in the medium of photography but also for painting or drawing.
A person, usually an attractive female, hired to show items or goods to the public, such as items given away as prizes on a TV game show.
A representation of a physical object, usually in miniature.
* Shakespeare
* Addison
A simplified representation used to explain the workings of a real world system or event.
A style, type, or design.
The structural design of a complex system.
A successful example to be copied, with or without modifications.
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, title= (logic) An interpretation function which assigns a truth value to each atomic proposition.
(logic) An interpretation which makes a certain sentence true, in which case that interpretation is called a model of that sentence.
A particular style, design, or make of a particular product.
(manufacturing) An identifier of a product given by its manufacturer (also called model number).
Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.
* Shakespeare
Worthy of being a model; exemplary.
* (rfdate), Blackwood's Magazine , volume 289, page 525:
* 1898 , John Thorburn, The St. Andrew's Society of Ottawa: 1846-1897 : sketch , page 40:
* 1932 , Nora Fugger, James Austin Galaston (translator), The Glory of the Habsburgs: the Memoirs of Princess Fugger , page 35:
* 1934 , Charles Ryle Fay, Imperial economy and its place in the formation of economic doctrine, 1600-1932 , page 143:
* 1956 , Stephen Rynne, All Ireland , page 54:
* 1968 , American County Government , volume 33, page 19:
* 1999 , Michael D. Williams, Acquisition for the 21st century: the F-22 Development Program , page 113:
* 2002 , Uma Anand Segal, A framework for immigration: Asians in the United States , page 308:
* 2010 , Eleanor Coppola, Notes on a Life , page 140:
To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model.
To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model.
To make a miniature model of.
To create from a substance such as clay.
To make a or models.
To be a model of any kind.
The process of testing a strategy, model etc. using data from a previous time
As nouns the difference between model and backtesting
is that model is template while backtesting is the process of testing a strategy, model etc using data from a previous time.model
English
(wikipedia model)Alternative forms
* modellNoun
(en noun)- I had my father's signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal.
- You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished.
- He was a model of eloquence and virtue.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
- Thou seest thy wretched brother die, / Who was the model of thy father's life.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* abstract model * animal model * arbitrage pricing model * business model * causal model * commercial model * computer model * conceptual model * data model * database model * Document Object Model * economy model * enterprise architecture model * entity-relationship model * fashion model * fetish model * fitness model * glamour model * information model * late model * mark to model * mathematical model * mental model * model aircraft * model checking * model organism * model solution * model theory * modelizer * modelly * multimodel * off-model * plamodel * production model * relational model * role model * runway model * scale model * scientific model * spokesmodel * supermodel * waterfall model * water-line model * view modelAdjective
(-)- At our approach the animals made so much noise that the owners of the hut peered round the door to see what was the matter; outwardly rather less model than the farm, there appeared two ancient Basques, emblematically black-bereted, gnarled [...]
- [...] from the land of your origin, because you demand the claims of those who believe it more model than yours, [...]
- Methods of game-preservation in their extensive and well-stocked hunting-grounds were as model as the huntsmanlike management of the hunts.
- [...] and we press with special severity on one small country whose agriculture is as model as is her way of rural life.
- True, it is an untidy county; the farmhouses are much more model' than the farms (when we reach Antrim we shall find that the farms are more ' model than the farmhouses).
- But not all the exchanges were as model as the sergeant. Some of the exchangees showed a rigidity and reluctance to adapt.
- It is as model as you can get.
- While Asians have been perceived as the model minority, it is increasingly clear that some Asian groups are more model than are others, and even within these model groups, a division exists [...]
- All were neat and well kept which added to the sense that they were more model than real.
Synonyms
* (worthy of being a model) idealVerb
- She modelled the shoes for her friends to see.
- They modelled the data with a computer to analyze the experiment’s results.
- He takes great pride in his skill at modeling airplanes.
- The sculptor modelled the clay into the form of a dolphin.
- The actress used to model before being discovered by Hollywood.