Journal
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & SYSTEM SAFETY
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages 23-69Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00058-9
Keywords
aleatory uncertainty; epistemic uncertainty; Latin hypercube sampling; Monte Carlo analysis; random sampling; sensitivity analysis; uncertainty analysis
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The following techniques for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis are briefly summarized: Monte Carlo analysis, differential analysis, response surface methodology, Fourier amplitude sensitivity test, Sobol' variance decomposition, and fast probability integration. Desirable features of Monte Carlo analysis in conjunction with Latin hypercube sampling are described in discussions of the following topics: (i) properties of random, stratified and Latin hypercube sampling, (ii) comparisons of random and Latin hypercube sampling, (iii) operations involving Latin hypercube sampling (i.e. correlation control, reweighting of samples to incorporate changed distributions, replicated sampling to test reproducibility of results), (iv) uncertainty analysis (i.e. cumulative distribution functions, complementary cumulative distribution functions, box plots), (v) sensitivity analysis (i.e. scatterplots, regression analysis, correlation analysis, rank transformations, searches for nonrandom patterns), and (vi) analyses involving stochastic (i.e. aleatory) and subjective (i.e. epistemic) uncertainty. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
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