Extending a global sensitivity analysis technique to models with correlated parameters

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5579-5590

  Xu, C ^a   Gertner, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; FAST; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION RATIO SENSITIVITY METHODS; FOURIER AMPLITUDE SENSITIVITY TEST (FAST); REAL APPLICATION MODELS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547482417     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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