19. The method of claim 17 in which the final model and the model process validation results are stored persistently.
17. The method of claim 16 in which the information about the performance comprises information about the performance of the validated model process applied to two independent data subsets, the independent data subsets being randomly selected from the historical data, and includes at least one of: a statistical report card, a link to a statistical report chart, a cumulative lift chart, a link to the cumulative lift chart, a non-cumulative lift chart, a link to the non-cumulative lift chart.