# Validation

This guide briefly explains how Mimi PAGE results were validated against PAGE 2009 outputs.

Validations were performed for both the deterministic and probabilistic versions of the model. For the deterministic version of the model, both individual components and final outputs were validated. For the probabilistic version of the model, final outputs were validated.

## Folder Structure

Relevant tests and data are saved in the 'test' folder. The folders are organized as follows.

test

Contains separate unit tests for the deterministic version of each of the individual model components.

test/validationdata

We obtained PAGE 2009 values from the Excel version of PAGE 2009, provided by Chris Hope (personal communication).

Running the Excel version of PAGE 2009 requires the @RISK 7.5 Industial software (available at http://go.palisade.com/RISKDownload.html), which facilitates probabilistic modeling in Excel. Free 15-day trials of the software are available

In order to perform tests of individual components, known values were extracted from PAGE '09 or the PAGE written documentation. Where they were obtained from PAGE 2009, values were exported with full precision using a separate extraction tool. (Key values are saved in the validationdata folder within the test folder.) Truncating precision can lead to compounding errors which will cause Mimi PAGE results to diverge from PAGE 2009.

## Deterministic validations

For each individual Mimi PAGE component, we tested the component with known input data and compared output with values from PAGE 2009. Nearly all values matched within 1%.

As an example of how a test file works, consider test/test_CO2emissions, which serves as a test for the src/components/CO2emissions.jl file.

First, we initialize the model and reference the relevant files (src/utils/load_paramaters.jl and, notably, src/components/CO2emissions.jl). Then we add the CO2emissions component to our model m.

using Mimi
using Test

include("../src/components/CO2emissions.jl")

m = Model()
set_dimension!(m, :time, [2009, 2010, 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050, 2075, 2100, 2150, 2200])
set_dimension!(m, :region, ["EU", "USA", "OECD","USSR","China","SEAsia","Africa","LatAmerica"])

add_comp!(m, co2emissions)

Then we set the component inputs (baseline emissions and CO2 emissions growth) using exogenous values from PAGE 2009, which are saved in the data folder.

set_param!(m, :co2emissions, :e0_baselineCO2emissions, readpagedata(m, "data/e0_baselineCO2emissions.csv"))
set_param!(m, :co2emissions, :er_CO2emissionsgrowth, readpagedata(m, "data/er_CO2emissionsgrowth.csv"))

Then we run our model, save the output to the emissions variable. We then load exogenous PAGE 2009 data on emissions into the emissions_compare variable. We test to see if the output from our model matches that from PAGE within 1e-3 precision (it does).

##running Model
run(m)

emissions = m[:co2emissions,  :e_regionalCO2emissions]

# Recorded data