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, compliance in a social activity to fit in and be part of the majority

See also

• Cross validation (disambiguation)
• Revalidation
• Verification (disambiguation)
• Validate (McAfee), software application