Partial order investigation of multiple indicator systems using variance-based sensitivity analysis

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 950-958

  Annoni, Paola ^a   Brüggemann, Rainer ^b   Saltelli, Andrea ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation of chemicals; Global sensitivity analysis; Posets; Variance

Indexed keywords

DATA MATRICES; EVALUATION OF CHEMICALS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; INDICATOR SYSTEM; INDICATOR VALUES; INTRINSIC NATURE; MAIN EFFECT; MATRIX; MULTI-CRITERIA RANKING; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PARTIAL ORDER; PARTIALLY ORDERED SET; POSETS; SENSITIVITY INDICES; VARIANCE; VARIANCE-BASED SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA; SET THEORY;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DETECTION METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953116159     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.01.008     Document Type: Article

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