Probabilistic sensitivity measures applied to numerical models of flow and transport

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 57, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 353-364

  Cawlfield, Jeffrey D ^a   Boateng, Samuel ^a   Piggott, John ^a   Wu, Ming Chee ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical models; Probabilistic; Reliability; Sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031380936     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949659708811817     Document Type: Article

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