Validation
Validation or validity may refer to:
- Validity, in logic, determining whether a statement is true or false
- Validity (statistics), the application of the principles of statistics to arrive at valid conclusions
- Validation and verification, in engineering, confirming that a product or service meets the needs of its users
- Verification and Validation (software), checking that a software system meets specifications and fulfills its intended purpose
- Validation of foreign studies and degrees, processes for transferring educational credentials between countries
- Validation (drug manufacture), documenting that a process or system meets its pre-determined specifications and quality attributes
- Data validation, in computer science, ensuring that data inserted into an application satisfies defined formats and other input criteria
- Regression model validation, in statistics, determining whether a model fits the data well
- XML validation, the process of checking a document written in XML to confirm that it both is "well-formed" and follows a defined structure
- Social validation (psychology), compliance in a social activity to fit in and be part of the majority
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