There’s a nice 2010 article on this distinction by Galit Shmueli [0] called To explain or to predict? that explores this distinction in depth for anyone here in

There’s a nice 2010 article on this distinction by Galit Shmueli [0] called To explain or to predict? that explores this distinction in depth for anyone here interested in learning more. [0] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/shmueli.pdf