Data-driven damage tracking and hysteresis evaluation of earthquake-excited structures with test validation

2020 ◽  
Vol 207 ◽  
pp. 110214
Author(s):  
Jiazeng Shan ◽  
Hanqing Zhang ◽  
Yuting Ouyang ◽  
Weixing Shi
Keyword(s):  
Test Validation ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Damage Tracking

Model-reference damage tracking and evaluation of hysteretic structures with test validation

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 443-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiazeng Shan ◽  
Yuting Ouyang ◽  
Hanqing Zhang ◽  
Weixing Shi
Keyword(s):  
Test Validation ◽  
Model Reference ◽  
Damage Tracking

Test Validation Without Measurement

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Lacot ◽  
Mohammad H. Afzali ◽  
Stéphane Vautier
Keyword(s):  
Test Data ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Test Validation ◽  
Clinical Tests ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Power Of Test ◽  
Memory Accuracy ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Special Case

Abstract. Test validation based on usual statistical analyses is paradoxical, as, from a falsificationist perspective, they do not test that test data are ordinal measurements, and, from the ethical perspective, they do not justify the use of test scores. This paper (i) proposes some basic definitions, where measurement is a special case of scientific explanation; starting from the examples of memory accuracy and suicidality as scored by two widely used clinical tests/questionnaires. Moreover, it shows (ii) how to elicit the logic of the observable test events underlying the test scores, and (iii) how the measurability of the target theoretical quantities – memory accuracy and suicidality – can and should be tested at the respondent scale as opposed to the scale of aggregates of respondents. (iv) Criterion-related validity is revisited to stress that invoking the explanative power of test data should draw attention on counterexamples instead of statistical summarization. (v) Finally, it is argued that the justification of the use of test scores in specific settings should be part of the test validation task, because, as tests specialists, psychologists are responsible for proposing their tests for social uses.

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