title: Empirical agreement in model validation.
abstract: Empirical agreement is often used as an important criterion when assessing the validity of scientific models. However, it is by no means a sufficient criterion as a model can be so adjusted as to fit available data even though it is based on hypotheses whose plausibility is known to be questionable. Our aim in this paper is to investigate into the uses of empirical agreement within the process of model validation.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne, SND, Paris, France. Electronic address: julie.jebeile@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jebeile
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne, SND, Paris, France. Electronic address: anouk.barberousse@paris-sorbonne.fr.
authors.forename: Anouk
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barberousse
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D036262:Empirical Research; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic
keywords: Calibration; Confirmation holism; Empirical agreement; Model validation; Scientific modeling