TY - JOUR
T1 - Sensitivity analysis
T2 - A discipline coming of age
AU - Saltelli, Andrea
AU - Jakeman, Anthony
AU - Razavi, Saman
AU - Wu, Qiongli
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Sensitivity analysis (SA) as a ‘formal’ and ‘standard’ component of scientific development and policy support is relatively young. Many researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines have contributed to SA over the last three decades, and the SAMO (sensitivity analysis of model output) conferences, since 1995, have been the primary driver of breeding a community culture in this heterogeneous population. Now, SA is evolving into a mature and independent field of science, indeed a discipline with emerging applications extending well into new areas such as data science and machine learning. At this growth stage, the present editorial leads a special issue consisting of one Position Paper on “The future of sensitivity analysis” and 11 research papers on “Sensitivity analysis for environmental modelling” published in Environmental Modelling & Software in 2020–21.
AB - Sensitivity analysis (SA) as a ‘formal’ and ‘standard’ component of scientific development and policy support is relatively young. Many researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines have contributed to SA over the last three decades, and the SAMO (sensitivity analysis of model output) conferences, since 1995, have been the primary driver of breeding a community culture in this heterogeneous population. Now, SA is evolving into a mature and independent field of science, indeed a discipline with emerging applications extending well into new areas such as data science and machine learning. At this growth stage, the present editorial leads a special issue consisting of one Position Paper on “The future of sensitivity analysis” and 11 research papers on “Sensitivity analysis for environmental modelling” published in Environmental Modelling & Software in 2020–21.
KW - Evidence based policy
KW - Machine learning
KW - Sensitivity analysis
KW - Uncertainty analysis
KW - Validation and verification of mathematical models
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U2 - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105226
DO - 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105226
M3 - Article
SN - 1364-8152
VL - 146
JO - Environmental Modelling and Software
JF - Environmental Modelling and Software
M1 - 105226
ER -