Acting on it · The outcome · Element

The lesson

What the difference teaches.

The part

What it is

A prediction that was too large suggests over-confidence; one that was too small suggests a mechanism nobody modelled.

Accumulated across several analyses, this is the record that makes an analytical function better rather than merely busier.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.