REPLY The Minimum Acceptable Model Standard (SD6745)

[SDMAIL martin]

Posted by  martin at utalca.cl

Hi Richard,

I find your "minimal list" interesting.  If such a list of "deliverables" could
exist, it would help students and in some courses we might use kind of a form
that guides them through the phases.

In the "peer review dialog" session at the conferences, we've discussed the
existence of such a list since the first time the session was held.  

I'd agree to points 1 - 4 without discussion.  

Points 5 and 6 refer to validity tests (beyond structural correspondance,
already included in your point 4).  I'd like to ask if the results of validity
tests should not be documented (just like the equations); this may be a short
section in the text and/or an appendix.  Wouldn't this help to make up your mind
about the model (without having to test it yourself)?  Maybe this is what you
meant, and I just understood it wrong.

Since it has always been stressed that we should model a problem, not a system,
maybe the model documentation should start with a section that defines the
problem and the purpose of the modeling?

Best,

Martin Schaffernicht
Posted by  martin at utalca.cl
posting date  Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:13:49 -0300