Re: validation from data is also insufficient

[Doug Donalson]

You might find this artical interesting.  This paper was a result of a
working group at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
The spent a lot of time analyzing various methods for matching models to
data.

> yes, this certainly should be true - my real point is that more than the
usual
> ``curve fitting'' is required to use data to evaluate models,

Kendall, Bruce E.; Briggs, Cheryl J.; Murdoch, William W.; Turchin, Peter;
Ellner,
                   Stephen P.; McCauley, Edward; Nisbet, Roger M.; Wood,
Simon N.  WHY DO
                   POPULATIONS CYCLE? A SYNTHESIS OF STATISTICAL AND
                   MECHANISTIC MODELING APPROACHES. Ecology v80, n6 (Sept,
                   1999):1789.



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