allow us to model vs allow to model

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'Allow us to model' is used when the subject 'us' is performing the action of modeling. 'Allow to model' is used when the subject is not specified or is implied. They are not directly comparable as they serve different purposes.

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allow us to model

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when the subject 'us' is performing the action of modeling.

This phrase is used when the subject is specified and is actively involved in the modeling process.

Examples:

Please allow us to model the new system before implementation.
They allowed us to model the behavior of the new software.
Will you allow us to model the impact of the changes?
The teacher allowed us to model the experiment in the lab.
The company allowed us to model the financial projections.

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The technologies that are coming, high-performance computing, analytics, big data that everyone's talking about, will allow us to build predictive models for each of us as individual patients.
That will not allow us to sustain the social model that we have built up, or to have sustainable development, unless we do something dramatic to galvanise economic activity in the Union.
We believe that this model allows us to respond to the urgency and also allows us to receive the necessary technical support so that loans or aid may be positively assessed by the market.
In any case, it is advisable that sufficient test concentrations are used to allow good model estimation.
The article allows different models of child safety seats to be clipped in and out.
The basic model allows you to experience...
I believe it is also very important that this model allows for the participation of the candidate countries.
We refuse to allow a model of social and territorial cohesion based on equal citizenship to disappear, even if the situation still has some way to go before it is perfect.
And there are different models which allow you to compute the control you get from ownership.
But the framework currently proposed carries too many risks for our democracy and for our social model to allow me to approve of this step.
Such business models notably allow more effective use of know-how and investments, resulting in higher-quality products at lower cost.
Each TSO shall provide all necessary data in the individual grid model to allow active and reactive power flow and voltage analyses in steady state.
Appropriate tests will also allow a CCP's models, their methodologies and the liquidity risk management framework to deal with changing markets and new risks promptly.
Therefore, it is essential to promote new distribution modes in order to allow new business models to emerge.
A peer-to-peer interaction model allows the best cost distribution between the different actors, based on actual usage and it will present, in general, lesser scalability problems.
A Peer-to-Peer interaction model allows the best distribution of costs between the different actors, based on actual usage and, in general, will pose fewer scalability problems.
A peer-to-peer interaction model allows the best cost distribution between the different actors, based on actual usage and will present, in general, lesser scalability problems.
The fact that utility models exist allows small technical advances that aid the human race to also benefit their creators, even though the level of invention does not warrant as much protection as under a patent.
NorthLink 1 made available to the Scottish Executive their business model to allow it to examine the impact of the competition on the company's viability.
What the global delivery model allows is, it allows you to take previously geographically core-located tasks, break them up into parts, send them around the world where the expertise and the cost structure exists, and then specify the means for reintegrating them.

Alternatives:

Permit us to model
Enable us to model
Give us permission to model
Let us model
Authorize us to model

allow to model

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English when the subject is not specified or is implied.

This phrase is used when the subject is not explicitly mentioned or when it is clear from the context who is being allowed to model.