Bringing economy and robustness in parameter testing: A Taguchi methods-based approach to model validation

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 374-391

  Hadjis, Andreas ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 82255175602     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.466     Document Type: Article

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