RECONSTRUCTABILITY ANALYSIS (Consistency in)

Charles François (2004). RECONSTRUCTABILITY ANALYSIS (Consistency in), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2750.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 2750 ▶
Object type	Methodology or model

A. RAMER and L. LANDER state: “Two systems are called consistent if they induce identical marginal distributions of the set of variables they share. In other words, the variables common to both systems are given the same distribution by either parent system. An arbitrary family of systems is consistent if its members are pairwise consistent. This condition is often called a hypothesis of local consistency, as opposed to a stronger requirement called global consistency. Global consistency mandates the existence of a hypothetical overall system whose subsystems include our family of systems” (1990, p.448).