Small sample sensitivity analysis techniques for computer models, with an application to risk assessment

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 1980, Pages 1749-1842

  Iman, Ronald L ^a   Conover, W J ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

estimation risk with uncertainty; Friedman test; Latin hypercube sampling; multiple comparisons; radioactive waste depository; risk assessment; sensitivity analysis of computer models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900847494     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610928008827996     Document Type: Article

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