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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1093/biosci/biag010 |
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| Title (Primary) | The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who built them, and people who didn’t |
| Author | Bell, A.R.; Troost, C.; Filatova, T.; Vincenot, C.; Qin, C.-Z.; Fiedler, S.; Lemmen, C.; Lynch, I.; Pierce, M.; Edmonds, B.; McIntire, E.; Wang, H.-H.; Koralewski, T.E.; Grant, W.E.; Wang, M.; Black, B.; Grimm, V. |
| Source Titel | BioScience |
| Year | 2026 |
| Department | OESA |
| Language | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Keywords | highlight |
| Abstract | Do you want your model findings to be used and have a place in academic or policy discourse? Then PAVE that place. For modelers, PAVE (Purpose, Assumptions, Validity, and Exploration) is a semi-structured method to communicate the suitability of models to inform a particular purpose. For users of model results, PAVE is a method for identifying the strength with which model findings inform a question of interest. For all audiences, PAVE distills more comprehensive model documentation protocols into a simple set of concepts for modelers and users alike to discuss. In doing so, PAVE solves a dilemma: there is an audience for whom formal protocols for documenting model development, testing, and analysis are everything. And there is an audience for whom such technical tools are a terrifying abyss, neither to be approached nor looked upon. PAVE is meant to help these audiences talk to each other about model findings. |
| Bell, A.R., Troost, C., Filatova, T., Vincenot, C., Qin, C.-Z., Fiedler, S., Lemmen, C., Lynch, I., Pierce, M., Edmonds, B., McIntire, E., Wang, H.-H., Koralewski, T.E., Grant, W.E., Wang, M., Black, B., Grimm, V. (2026): The PAVE pathway: how to talk about models with people who built them, and people who didn’t Bioscience 10.1093/biosci/biag010 |
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