The "ETNA bestest" empirical validation data set

IBPSA 2005 - International Building Performance Simulation Association 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 839-846

  Neymark, J ^a   Girault, P ^b   Guyon, G ^b   Judkoff, R ^c   LeBerre, R ^b   Ojalvo, J ^b   Reimer, P ^b  

^a J Neymark & Associates   (United States)

^b Research and Development Division   (France)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESTEST; BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; COMPARATIVE TESTS; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSTIC METHODS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; ENERGY SIMULATION; NATIONAL LABORATORY; PARAMETRIC VARIATION; TEST CELL;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 84869819679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (16)

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