@article {16410,
	title = {Statistical validation of spatial patterns in agent-based models},
	journal = {Proceedings of Agent Based Simulation},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003///},
	abstract = {We present and evaluate an agent-based model(ABM) of land use change at the rural-urban fringe.
This paper is part of a project that links the ABM
to surveys of residential preferences and historical
patterns of development. Validation is an important
issue for such models and we discuss the use of
distributional phenomena as a method of validation.
We then highlight the ability of our ABM to gen-
erate two phenomena evident in empirical analysis
of urban development patterns: a power law rela-
tionship between frequency and cluster size and a
negative exponential relationship between density
and distance from city center. We discuss these
results in the light of validation of ABMs.
},
	author = {Rand, William and Brown,D.G. and Page,S.E. and Riolo,R and Fernandez,L.E. and Zellner,M}
}
