.. _reliability_sensitivity: Reliability, sensitivity ======================== Sensitivity analysis methods can be used to analyze the respective importance of each uncertainty source with respect to a probabilistic criterion. This covers ranking methods for probabilistic criterion on central dispersion (expectation and variance) and probability of exceeding a threshold / failure probability. Central dispersion ------------------ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 low_discrepancy_sequence design_experiment optimal_lhs taylor_moments monte_carlo_moments Sensitivity analysis -------------------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 taylor_importance_factors ranking_pearson ranking_spearman ranking_src ranking_srrc ranking_pcc ranking_prcc sensitivity_sobol sensitivity_ancova sensitivity_fast importance_form sensitivity_form Probability of exceeding a threshold ------------------------------------ Approximation methods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 form_approximation sorm_approximation reliability_index strong_maximum_test Sampling methods ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 monte_carlo_simulation importance_simulation directional_simulation lhs_simulation qmc_simulation