In such a kind of traditional validation, 'if the performance on the two tests is sufficiently similar, then the new test can be said to have been "validated" by means of the old one' (Baker, 1989, p. 22) without there being 'little external evidence that these tests are measuring' the same abilities as their well-established criterion (Mackey & Gass 2005, p. 108).
A controller is said to be validated for stability if it stabilizes all models defined by an ellipsoidal parametric uncertainty set containing the true system with some prescribed probability.
The same controller is said to be validated for performance if the worst case performance achieved by this controller over the plants in the uncertainty region is better than some threshold value.
Later, moving images of the lives she might have lived are spirited into being – very faintly, it must be said – then used to validate the real Claudia's life choices.
Gentle nodding of the head can demonstrate acknowledgment of what's being said, without validating or agreeing with the meaning or position of the speaker.
When you converse with your date, listen to what she is saying, and validate her feelings when applicable.
"That's what I'm saying," he validates.
His role in his 25-minute address, aides said, is to validate Mr. Obama the president, much as Michelle Obama validated Mr. Obama the family man.
"They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say".
Russell elaborates these ideas into five postulates which he says are necessary "to validate scientific method" (1948, p. 487).
