Patent Document ID: 20080086288
Application ID: 11576071
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for the analysis of a system, based on the use of a model of said system, where said model includes at least two variables divided into one or more groups, each of said groups being defined by, and including, one or more variables called characteristic variables and grouping together all the other variables, called influent variables, having a direct or indirect influence on the value of at least one of said characteristic variables of said group, the method comprising: a stage for initialisation of the model into a state corresponding to a given state of the system, a stage for creating a list, called the discordant variables list, of characteristic variables whose value in the system differs from that predicted by the model, and for each characteristic variable of said discordant variables list, a process that includes: a stage for creating a list, called initial suspect variables list, of influent variables that may have generated the discordant value of said discordant variable, a stage for creating a list, called restricted list of suspect variables, by filtration of said initial list of suspect variables.