SGER: Model Validation for Engineering Design Decisions

这项探索性研究（SGER）小额赠款旨在探索验证，目的是建立模型有效性和验证方法的正式表征。数学模型对工程设计至关重要。有一个问题是，模型有效性和模型验证的理解很差。工程设计或决策科学文献都没有提供解决模型有效性或验证的基本理论。缺乏一个可理解的理论应该引起工程师的相当大的关注，因为他们必须在决策功能中依赖复杂的模型。特别是，这个项目试图建立验证和众所周知的结果之间的联系，从遍历理论。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) award is to explore validation with the objective of establishing a formal characterization of model validity and validation methodology. Mathematical models are essential to engineering design. There is a concern that model validity and model validation are poorly understood. Neither the engineering design or the decision science literature offer a basic theory addressing model validity or validation. The absence of an accessible theory should be of considerable concern to engineers who must rely on sophisticated models in the decision making function.In particular, this project seeks to establish a connection between validation and well-known results from ergodic theory.