Importance measures in global sensitivity analysis of nonlinear models

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-17

  Homma, Toshimitsu ^a,c   Saltelli, Andrea ^b  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c Nucl Power Engineering Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR MODELS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030121081     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0951-8320(96)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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