A Method for the Nonstatistical Assessment of Behaviorally-Based Policy Models

B E Tonn
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B E Tonn: Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box X, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA

Environment and Planning A, 1988, vol. 20, issue 5, 669-679

Abstract: Advanced computer-technology, sophisticated econometric computer-software, and the increasing availability of disaggregated data have all facilitated the development and use, for planning and policy analysis, of statistically-estimated mathematical models of human behavior. In this paper the author presents a method to judge subjectively the quality of these models and illustrates how the results of the method can be used, with statistical measures of the quality of a model, as indicators of the predictive abilities of the model. Ideas are drawn from the literature on artificial intelligence, and the concern is how to represent and manipulate subjective judgments. Five models which are related to household energy-use behavior are subjectively assessed, statistically estimated, and used to predict future behavior. In four of the five cases, the subjective assessments, in combination with the statistical measures, correctly indicate the quality of the predictive accuracy of a model.

Date: 1988
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