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| author | Wang, Chunxiao Duplessis, Bruno Peirano, Eric Schetelat, Pascal Riederer, Peter |
| author_facet | Wang, Chunxiao Duplessis, Bruno Peirano, Eric Schetelat, Pascal Riederer, Peter |
| contents | Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) are vital for enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in urban planning. However, data scarcity often challenges their validation, particularly the lack of hourly measured data and the variety of building samples. This study addresses this issue by applying bias adjustment techniques from survey research to improve UBEM validation robustness with incomplete measured data. Error estimation tests are conducted using various levels of missingness, and three bias adjustment methods are employed: multivariate imputation, cell weighting and raking weighting. Key findings indicate that using incomplete data in UBEM validation without adjustment is not advisable, while bias adjustment techniques significantly enhance the robustness of validation, providing more reliable model validity estimates. Cell weighting is preferable in this study due to its reliance on joint distributions of auxiliary variables. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Addressing Data Scarcity in UBEM Validation: Application of Survey Sampling Techniques Wang, Chunxiao Duplessis, Bruno Peirano, Eric Schetelat, Pascal Riederer, Peter Applications Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM) are vital for enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability in urban planning. However, data scarcity often challenges their validation, particularly the lack of hourly measured data and the variety of building samples. This study addresses this issue by applying bias adjustment techniques from survey research to improve UBEM validation robustness with incomplete measured data. Error estimation tests are conducted using various levels of missingness, and three bias adjustment methods are employed: multivariate imputation, cell weighting and raking weighting. Key findings indicate that using incomplete data in UBEM validation without adjustment is not advisable, while bias adjustment techniques significantly enhance the robustness of validation, providing more reliable model validity estimates. Cell weighting is preferable in this study due to its reliance on joint distributions of auxiliary variables. |
| title | Addressing Data Scarcity in UBEM Validation: Application of Survey Sampling Techniques |
| topic | Applications |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20531 |