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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2014 May 5;35(2):170–182. doi: 10.1177/0272989X14528382

Table 1.

A summary of some of the different options for calibration search and fit assessment. For an overview of model calibration methods, see (5).

Search algorithms Fit assessment
Individual targets Overall

  • Deterministic search

    • Hand-tuning

    • Grid search

  • Random search

  • Directed search

    • Nelder-Mead (20)

    • Genetic Algorithm(21-23); e.g., (6)

    • Simulated Annealing (21); e.g., (6)

    • Metropolis-Hastings; e.g., (28)

  • Visual Assessment

  • Distance measures

    • Absolute or squared difference

    • Mean squared error

  • Probabilistic measures

    • Likelihood or log-likelihood

    • Chi-squared

  • Penalty function

  • Visual Assessment; e.g., (29,30)

  • Summary GOF score

    • Sum or weighted sum of target fits (31); e.g., (15,32,33)

    • Joint-likelihood of target fits (18,34,35); e.g., (16,28,36)

  • Pareto-optimality (8,14)