Table 1.

Relationship between models and recipes

Recipe	Model	Purpose
Ingredients	Inputs/features	Characterize the possible building blocks (dimension) necessary to create an output
Proportions	Weights/parameters	Characterize the relative importance of each input
Instructions	Formula/model specification	A describe a set of mathematical rules for ways in which inputs should be combined
Product	Prediction	The output consequent of combining inputs according to a set of rules with a set of fixed levels of importance