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Context.Synthesis models predict the integrated properties of stellar populations. Several problems exist in this field, mostly related to the fact that integrated properties are distributed. To date, this aspect has been either ignored (as in standard synthesis models, which are inherently deterministic) or interpreted phenomenologically (as in Monte Carlo simulations, which describe distributed properties rather than explain them).
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Cerviño et al. (2006) studied this question.
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