A hierarchical statistical sensitivity analysis method for multilevel systems with shared variables

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 0310061-03100611

  Liu, Yu ^a   Yin, Xiaolei ^b   Arendt, Paul ^b   Chen, Wei ^b   Huang, Hong Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANALYSIS METHOD; COMPLEX ENGINEERING SYSTEM; DESIGN STAGE; DESIGNING COMPLEX; MODEL INPUTS; MODEL OUTPUTS; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; SHARED VARIABLES; STATISTICAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBMODELS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955217528     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4001211     Document Type: Article

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