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Article: Sensitivity Analysis.(Review)
- Article from:
- Technometrics
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Sensitivity Analysis, edited by Andrea SALTELLI, Karen CHAN, and E. Marian SCOTT, West Sussex, U.K.: Wiley, 2000, ISBN 0-471-99892-3, xv + 475 pp., S89.95.
This large, long, beautifully presented volume from the publisher's Series in Probability and Statistics essentially presents a topic that was new to me. I knew about sensitivity analysis in regression (e.g., see Chatterjee, Hodi, and Price 2000). Chapter 1 ("What Is Sensitivity Analysis?"), verse one, states, "Sensitivity analysis is the study of how variation in the output of a model can be apportioned, qualitatively or quantitatively, to different sources of variation, and of how the given model depends ...