Related Terms. A Rapid Application Development (RAD) system developed by Borland International, Inc. Delphi is similar to Visual Basic from Microsoft, but whereas Visual Basic is based on the BASIC programming language, Delphi is based on Pascal.
A parameter is a numerical value that states something about the entire population being studied. For example, we may want to know the mean wingspan of the American bald eagle. This is a parameter because it is describing all of the population. Parameters are difficult if not impossible to obtain exactly.
A parameter file has the following format: where x is some number and Parameter is the name of some model parameter accessible through get and set methods. Runs specifies the number of runs to execute for the current parameter value. runs: is ignored for non-batch models.