4.5. Validating the models for the purpose of equipment standardization
The purpose of standardization is to create a uniform, comparable basis, for the price paid by slaughterhouses to pig producers. For example, a producer delivers two batches of pigs randomly selected fromthe same pig population, to
two different slaughterhouses. One slaughterhouse uses the FOM equipment for the classification of carcasses while
the other slaughterhouse uses the OGP device. It would be unfair for the producer if the price for one batch were very different than the price for the other batch. At the same time, the distribution of carcasses into quality classes for
the two batches should be the same.