Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis for models with correlated parameters

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1563-1573

  Xu, Chonggang ^a   Gertner, George Zdzislaw ^a  

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

Author keywords

Correlated parameters; Latin hypercube sampling; Linear regression; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; CORRELATION METHODS; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATED PARAMETERS; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING; PARAMETER INDEPENDENCE; REGRESSION BASED METHOD;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 43249096987     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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