Renault Twingo of their existing partnership, announced "Project Edison", a collaboration aimed at conceiving a shared platform for small city cars to be shared by both companies. The first cars using the platform were the third generation Twingo and the second generation Smart Forfour. Renault and Daimler invested equally during the research and development phase, with Renault subsequently specializing in the engines and Daimler in transmissions. Both companies tried to ensure a distinctive design. Renault designers took inspiration from the Renault 5. and the first generation Twingo, The car was originally launched with four colour options, as with the original Twingo. The
All models are wrong (§1.2.5). The statistician J. Michael Steele has argued somewhat against the aphorism as follows. The statistician Andrew Gelman countered that, saying in particular the following. The statistician David Hand made the following statement in 2014. In 2011, a workshop on model selection was held in The Netherlands. The name of the workshop was "All models are wrong...". Additionally, the aphorism has been recommended to be a core part of the Applied Statistician's Creed. Although the aphorism seems to have originated with George Box, the underlying idea goes back decades, perhaps centuries. For example, in 1960, Georg Rasch said the following.