Implications for Model Validation of Multiresolution, Multiperspective Modeling (Mrmpm) and Exploratory Analysis (2003)

Examples of the use of multiresolution, multiperspective modeling (MRMPM) and exploratory analysis to validate models not based in settled theory or specific empirical testing. A model and its data may not be fully "valid" but may still be useful and good in more-limited ways. MRMPM and exploratory analysis are valuable for extrapolating, generalizing, and abstracting from small sets of analyses done with detailed models; for top-down planning; and for providing broad, synoptic assessments.