Talk:Sensitivity analysis

Proposal for restoring some of the changes operated by User:MrOllie
Based on the above discussion in the present talk page, here is my attempt to re-establish essential references using the edit COI template. Andrea Saltelli Saltean (talk) 09:47, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Specific text to be added or removed: several sentences and references were added - ten references with me as co-author. The changes are motivated by the repeated interventions of User:MrOllie that have been deep and have left the page with errors. If and when the present editing are accepted, and even if they are not, the page will need housekeeping and cleaning. A solution will also need to be found for the sections that were eliminated and for which the community of sensitivity analysis practitioners might be involved.
 * Reason for the change: Relevance of the proposed insertion to the page, see discussion in the present talk page
 * References supporting change: See in the present talk page the section entitle Top cited articles in sensitivity analysis with the number of citations

Among the several section suppressed by User:MrOllie the following section (indicated in in red) includes the method of Morris that is one of the most widely used in sensitivity analysis. I propose to reinstate it as it was verbatim inserting it as a new section (as before) with a modified title: Morris Method.

Screening is a particular instance of a sampling-based method. The objective here is rather to identify which input variables are contributing significantly to the output uncertainty in high-dimensionality models, rather than exactly quantifying sensitivity (i.e. in terms of variance). Screening tends to have a relatively low computational cost when compared to other approaches, and can be used in a preliminary analysis to weed out uninfluential variables before applying a more informative analysis to the remaining set. One of the most commonly used screening method is the elementary effect method.

In these proposed changes I have not suppressed text from other authors. Andrea Saltelli Saltean (talk) 09:57, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

References for the entire page Andrea Saltelli Saltean (talk) 15:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I can try evaluate them, though i only have deep knowledge in explainable AI. BikingFish (talk) 19:51, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks User:BikingFish but this is a request done under 'Conflict of Interest' template, I understand this is for Wikipedia Editors, not for Authors like us. Here a interesting paper that might interest you in case you want to discuss it on Wikipedia, in this page or elsewhere. Andrea Saltelli Saltean (talk) 11:18, 31 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Comment - the section below is related to this request. STEM info  (talk) 23:53, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I am marking this request as declined., you have been told before that repeatedly asking for the removals to be reverted and appealing to your position as the leading academic on the subject will not convince people here. Either work on a rewrite as a draft as you were advised to at the administrators' noticeboard, or propose smaller changes that can be digested and evaluated. Snowmanonahoe (talk · contribs · typos) 19:16, 28 March 2024 (UTC)