Sensitivity Analyses,
A Powerful Validation Tool

Terry Bahill
Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020, USA
terry@sie.arizona.edu
http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/slides/sensit.ppt
© 1998-2004 Bahill

Sensitivity analysis is old and well known technique, but few modern papers include them. Perhaps this is because of the subtle tricks and customizations that have to be done to reap their benefits. This seminar shows how to overcome some of the difficulties of performing sensitivity analyses. It draws examples from a broad range of fields: physics, systems theory, physiology, expert systems, bioengineering, control theory, simulation, queuing theory and system design. This seminar generalizes the important points that can be extracted from literature covering diverse fields and long time spans.

References [58]. This lecture is suitable for engineers. This talk requires an overhead projector. This talk takes one hour.