A comparative review of sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of large-scale systems - II: Statistical methods

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 204-217

  Cacuci, Dan G ^a,b   Ionescu Bujor, Mihaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CORRELATION METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

FOURIER AMPLITUDE SENSITIVITY TEST (FAST); SEQUENTIAL BIFURCATION (SB); SOBOL METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 3242761482     PISSN: 00295639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/04-54CR     Document Type: Review

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