Lecture H (2025-10-28): Verification, Validation, and Calibration of Simulation Models

At the start of this lecture, we review statistical topics and fitting techniques from Unit G (particularly Lecture G3, on goodness of fit). In particular, we review hypothesis testing fundamentals (type-I error, type-II error, statistical power, sensitivity, false positive rate, true negative rate, receiver operating characteristic, ROC, alpha, beta) and then go into examples of using Chi-squared…