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Techniques to Quantify the Sensitivity of Deterministic Model Uncertainties

T. Ishigami, E. Cazzoli, M. Khatib-Rahbar, +, S. D. Unwin†

Nuclear Science and Engineering / Volume 101 / Number 4 / April 1989 / Pages 371-383

Technical Paper / dx.doi.org/10.13182/NSE89-A23625

Several existing methods for the assessment of the sensitivity of output uncertainty distributions generated by deterministic computer models to the uncertainty distributions assigned to the input parameters are reviewed and new techniques are proposed. Merits and limitations of the various techniques are examined by detailed application to the suppression pool aerosol removal code (SPARC).