 Sensitivity analysis using contribution to sample variance plot: Application to a water hammer modelS. Tarantola, V. Kopustinskas, R. Bolado-Lavin, A. Kaliatka, Ušpuras, E. and Vaišnoras, M. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2012, vol. 99, issue C, 62-73 Abstract: This paper presents “contribution to sample variance plot†, a natural extension of the “contribution to the sample mean plot†, which is a graphical tool for global sensitivity analysis originally proposed by Sinclair. These graphical tools have a great potential to display graphically sensitivity information given a generic input sample and its related model realizations. The contribution to the sample variance can be obtained at no extra computational cost, i.e. from the same points used for deriving the contribution to the sample mean and/or scatter-plots. The proposed approach effectively instructs the analyst on how to achieve a targeted reduction of the variance, by operating on the extremes of the input parameters' ranges. The approach is tested against a known benchmark for sensitivity studies, the Ishigami test function, and a numerical model simulating the behaviour of a water hammer effect in a piping system. Keywords: Sensitivity analysis; Contribution to sample variance plot; Variance reduction; Water hammer; RELAP model; Ishigami function (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:reensy:v:99:y:2012:i:c:p:62-73 DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.10.007 Access Statistics for this article Reliability Engineering and System Safety is currently edited by Carlos Guedes Soares More articles in Reliability Engineering and System Safety from Elsevier |
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