Elementary effects method: Difference between revisions

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{{Short description|Screening method}}

Published in 1991 by Max Morris<ref>https://www.stat.iastate.edu/people/max-morris Home Page of Max D. Morris at [[Iowa State University]]</ref> the '''elementary effects (EE) method'''<ref name="Morris"/> is one of the the most used <ref>Borgonovo, Emanuele, and Elmar Plischke. 2016. “Sensitivity Analysis: A Review of Recent Advances.” European Journal of Operational Research 248 (3): 869–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.EJOR.2015.06.032. </ref><ref>Iooss, Bertrand, and Paul Lemaître. 2015. “A Review on Global Sensitivity Analysis Methods.” In Uncertainty Management in Simulation-Optimization of Complex Systems, edited by G. Dellino and C. Meloni, 101–22. Boston, MA: Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7547-8_5. </ref><ref>Norton, J.P. 2015. “An Introduction to Sensitivity Assessment of Simulation Models.” Environmental Modelling & Software 69 (C): 166–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.03.020. </ref><ref>Wei, Pengfei, Zhenzhou Lu, and Jingwen Song. 2015. “Variable Importance Analysis: A Comprehensive Review.” Reliability Engineering & System Safety 142: 399–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2015.05.018. </ref> screening methodmethods in [[sensitivity analysis]].

EE is applied to identify non-influential inputs for a computationally costly [[mathematical model]] or for a model with a large number of inputs, where the costs of estimating other sensitivity analysis measures such as the [[variance]]-based measures is not affordable. Like all screening, the EE method provides qualitative sensitivity analysis measures, i.e. measures which allow the identification of non-influential inputs or which allow to rank the input factors in order of importance, but do not quantify exactly the relative importance of the inputs.