Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty of a Myocardial Infarction Model

Benito Chen-Charpentier () and Hristo Kojouharov
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Benito Chen-Charpentier: Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Hristo Kojouharov: Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-25

Abstract: There is uncertainty in the results of any mathematical model due to different reasons. It is important to estimate this uncertainty. Sensitivity analysis is commonly used to estimate how the changes in the input parameters affect the solutions of the model. In this paper, we discuss different ways of performing local and global sensitivity analyses and apply them to two models: an epidemic model and a new myocardial infarction model, both based on ordinary differential equations. The first model is a simple model used to explain the ideas, while the second one shows how to apply them to a model with more state variables and parameters. We find that if the parameters are not accurately known, local sensitivity analysis can be misleading and that global sensitivity methods that sample the whole parameter space, varying all the values of the parameters at the same time, are the most reliable. We also show how the sensitivity analysis results can be used to determine the uncertainty in the results of the model. We present numerical simulations.

Keywords: sensitivity analysis; uncertainty; heart infarction; mathematical modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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