Sensitivity Analysis
Subtitle: Gauging the Worth of Scientific Models
Edition: First Edition
Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics : 535
Publisher: John WIley & Sons, Ltd.
Published: October 15, 2000
Place of publication: Chichester, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780471998921
Copyright date: ©2000
Notes: Presents many different sensitivity analysis methodologies and demonstrates their usefulness in scientific research and helpful in the solution of many modeling problems.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-447) and index.
Table of contents: title: - Editors' Prefact; title: - Contributors; title: - INTRODUCTION; title: - What is Sensitivity Analysis; title: - Hitchhiker's Guide to Sensitivity Analysis; title: - METHODS; title: - Designs of Experiments; title: - Screening Methods; title: - Local Methods; title: - Sampling-Based Methods; title: - Reliability Algorithms: FORM and SORM Methods; title: - Variance-Based Methods; title: - Managing the Tyranny of Parameters in Mathematical Modelling of Physical Systems; title: - Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis; title: - Graphical Methods; title: - APPLICATIONS; title: - Practical Experience in Applying Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis; title: - Scenario and Parametric Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis in Nuclear Waste Disposal Risk -Assessment: The Case of GESAMAC; title: - Sensitivity Analysis for Signal Extraction in Economic Time Series; title: - A Dataless Precalibration Analysis in Solid State Physics; title: - Application of First-Order (FORM) and Second-Order (SORM) Reliability Methods: Analysis and Interpretation of Sensitivity Measures Related to Groundwater Pressure Decreases and Resulting Ground Subsidence; title: - One-at-a-Time and Mini-Global Analyses for Characterizing Model Sensitivity in the nonlinear Ozone Predictionsfrom the US EPA Regional Acid Deposition Model (RADM); title: - Comparing Different Sensitivity Analysis Methods on a Chemical Reactions Model; title: - An Application of Sensitivity Analysis to Fish Population Dynamics; title: - Global Sensitivity Analysis: A Quality Assurance Tool in Environmental; title: - Policy Modelling; title: - CONCLUSIONS; title: - Assuring the Quality of Models Designed for Predictive Tasks; title: - Fortune and Future of Sensitivity Analysis; title: - References; title: - APPENDIX; title: - Software for Sensitivity Analysis - A Brief Review; title: - Index