1.2 Organization of this book
This text takes the reader through the modeling process, but not in the order presented in Section 1.1. There is a difference between how models are best applied and how they are best learned. In this text we first learn about the models and how to use them, and then we learn how to determine which model to use because it is difficult to select models in a vacuum. Unless the analyst has a thorough knowledge of the set of available models, it is difficult to narrow the choice to the ones worth considering. With that in mind, the organization of the text is as follows:
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