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Validation,evaluation,qualification, confirmation and assessment

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The terms validation, assessment, evaluation, cross-evaluation and other similar expressions are employed rather loosely in air pollution modelling. For example, all authors do not use the word validation in the same sense, and it is all too infrequently defined. The meaning has to be guessed from the context and sometimes is fundamentally different from the meaning attributed to the same term by another author. For this reason we shall start this chapter with a few definitions. Some of them may seem arbitrary to some readers, whereas other readers may have already accepted our definitions. Their use will at least be consistent within this text.

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    Michel M. Benarie Chem. Eng., D.Sc. (Head of Department of Air Pollution)

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Benarie, M.M. (1980). Validation,evaluation,qualification, confirmation and assessment. In: Urban Air Pollution Modelling. Air Pollution Problems Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03639-4_16

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