Re: A whiff of reality...

[Jan Kreft]

Steve,

On Tue, 2 May 2000, M. Lang & S. Railsback wrote:

> Systematic tests against an independent implementation.

I would argue that this is a necessary and sufficient criterium for model
verification. The other points you mentioned help detecting errors sooner
and in this way save a lot of work, but I wouldn't see a need to document
that in a paper.

Jan.

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