Modelling, making inferences and making decisions: The roles of sensitivity analysis
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Simon French
Citations89
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This paper categorise and explore the use of sensitivity analysis and its parallels, and hopes to provide a guide and typology to a large growing literature.
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Bayesian methods, decision analysis, elicitation, expert judgement, inference, Monte Carlo, risk analysis, robustness analysis, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis, 62C10,
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