Contents
Preface
Chap 1 Introduction to Sensitivity Analysis
1.1 Models and sensitivity analysis
1.1.1 Definiition
1.1.2 Models
1.1.3 Models and uncertainty
1.1.4 How to set up uncertainty and sentivity analyses
1.1.5 Implications for model quality
1.2 Methods and settings for sensitivity analysis - An introduction
1.2.1 Local versus global
1.2.2 A test model
1.2.3 Scatterplots versus derivatives
1.2.4 Sigma-normalized derivatives
1.2.5 Monte Carlo and Linear Regression
1.2.6 Conditional Variances – First Path
1.2.7 Conditional Variances – Second Path
1.2.8 Application to Model (1.3)
1.2.9 A First Setting: ‘Factor Prioritization’
1.2.10 Nonadditive Models
1.2.11 Higher-order Sensitivity Indices
1.2.12 Total Effects
1.2.13 A Second Setting: ‘Factor Fixing’
1.2.14 Rationale for Sensitivity Analysis
1.2.15 Treating Sets
1.2.16 Further Methods
1.2.17 Elementary Effect Test
1.2.18 Monte Carlo Filtering
1.3 NONINDEPENDENT INPUT FACTORS
1.4 POSSIBLE PITFALLS FOR A SENSITIVITY
ANALYSIS
1.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chap 2 Experimental Designs
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.2 DEPENDENCY ON A SINGLE PARAMETER
2.3 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE
PARAMETER
2.3.1 Random Values
2.3.2 Stratified Sampling
2.3.3 Mean and Variance Estimates for Stratified Sampling
2.4 SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE
PARAMETERS
2.4.1 Linear Models
2.4.2 One-at-a-time (OAT) Sampling
2.4.3 Limits on the Number of Influential Parameters
2.4.4 Fractional Factorial Sampling
2.4.5 Latin Hypercube Sampling
2.4.6 Multivariate Stratified Sampling
2.4.7 Quasi-random Sampling with Low-discrepancy
Sequences
2.5 GROUP SAMPLING
Chap 3 Elementary Effects Method
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 THE ELEMENTARY EFFECTS METHOD
3.3 THE SAMPLING STRATEGY AND ITS
OPTIMIZATION
3.4 THE COMPUTATION OF THE SENSITIVITY
MEASURES
3.5 WORKING WITH GROUPS
3.6 THE EE METHOD STEP BY STEP
3.7 CONCLUSIONS
Chap 4 Variance-based Methods
4.1 DIFFERENT TESTS FOR DIFFERENT SETTINGS
4.2 WHY VARIANCE?
4.3 VARIANCE-BASED METHODS. A BRIEF HISTORY
4.4 INTERACTION EFFECTS
4.5 TOTAL EFFECTS
4.6 HOW TO COMPUTE THE SENSITIVITY INDICES
4.7 FAST AND RANDOM BALANCE DESIGNS
4.8 PUTTING THE METHOD TO WORK: THE
INFECTION DYNAMICS MODEL
4.9 CAVEATS
Chap 5 Factor Mapping
and Metamodelling
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 MONTE CARLO FILTERING (MCF)
5.2.1 Implementation of Monte Carlo Filtering
5.2.2 Pros and Cons
5.2.3 Exercises
5.2.4 Solutions
5.2.5 Examples
5.2.5.1 Stability analysis of a controlled chemical reactor
5.2.5.2 Stability analysis of a small macroeconomic model
5.2.5.3 Mapping propagation of the infection in the simple infection
dynamics model
5.3 METAMODELLING AND THE
HIGH-DIMENSIONAL
MODEL REPRESENTATION
5.3.1 Estimating HDMRs and Metamodels
5.3.1.1 Smoothing scatterplots using the Haar wavelet
5.3.1.2 Spline smoothing
5.3.1.3 State-dependent regressions
5.3.1.4 Estimating sensitivity indices
5.3.2 A Simple Example
5.3.2.1 Haar wavelet smoothing
5.3.2.2 Spline smoothing (HP-filter)
5.3.2.3 SDR estimation
5.3.3 Another Simple Example
5.3.4 Exercises
5.3.5 Solutions to Exercises
5.4 CONCLUSIONS