Re: [Swarm-Modelling] comparing models

[gepr]

Andy Cleary writes:
 > >So, as to your questions about which techniques are best, just pick a
 > >few, do the work, write down the results.  Pick a few more, do the
 > >work, write down the results.  Etc.  If a sizable sampling of
 > >techniques (e.g. 3 statistical, 2 from feature extraction, 1
 > >state-space reconstruction, 2 in signal analysis) all give you a
 > >certain result (e.g. model 1 and model 2 lead to the same
 > >conclusions), then it may be worth pointing that out to some audience.
 > 
 > I don't disagree with you, but if you tried selling this as "validation" to 
 > people used to *physics*, you would not get very far.
 > 
 > Or to make it more concrete, *I* have not gotten very far in the same 
 > circumstances...

Can you give a list of the validation techniques you have used and,
perhaps, a breakdown of which ones were mildly successful and which
ones were definitely not successful?

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