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Article: Sensitivity Analysis in Practice.(Book Review)
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- Technometrics
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Sensitivity Analysis in Practice, Andrea SALTELLI, Stefano TARANTOLA, Francesca CAMPOLONGO, and Marco RATTO, Chichester, U.K.: Wiley, 2004, ISBN 0-470-87093-1, xi + 219 pp., $70.00.
Sensitivity analysis is a collection of methods for model diagnostics to determine the relative importance of model input factors. The authors of this book present several settings for the use of sensitivity analysis: determining the effects of input variables on the model output variance, identifying the most influential input variables or subsets of input variables and exploring the regions where specific input variables, are most important. A striking aspect of the book is the ...