Variable screening and ranking using sampling-based sensitivity measures

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 634-647

  Wu, Y T ^a   Mohanty, Sitakanta ^b  

^a APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CDF sensitivity; Probabilistic method; Reliability methods; Risk assessment; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty importance ranking; Variable screening

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF) SENSITIVITY; RELIABILITY METHODS; UNCERTAINTY IMPORTANCE RANKING; VARIABLE SCREENING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33644909061     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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