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Ishigami Function


Description:

Dimensions: 3

The Ishigami function of Ishigami & Homma (1990) is used as an example for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis methods, because it exhibits strong nonlinearity and nonmonotonicity. It also has a peculiar dependence on x3, as described by Sobol' & Levitan (1999).

The values of a and b used by Crestaux et al. (2007) and Marrel et al. (2009) are: a = 7 and b = 0.1. Sobol' & Levitan (1999) use a = 7 and b = 0.05.

Input Distributions:

The independent distributions of the input random variables are usually: xi ~ Uniform[-π, π], for all i = 1, 2, 3.

Code:


References:

Crestaux, T., Martinez, J.-M., Le Maitre, O., & Lafitte, O. (2007). Polynomial chaos expansion for uncertainties quantification and sensitivity analysis [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from SAMO 2007 website: http://samo2007.chem.elte.hu/lectures/Crestaux.pdf.

Ishigami, T., & Homma, T. (1990, December). An importance quantification technique in uncertainty analysis for computer models. In Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, 1990. Proceedings., First International Symposium on (pp. 398-403). IEEE.

Marrel, A., Iooss, B., Laurent, B., & Roustant, O. (2009). Calculations of sobol indices for the gaussian process metamodel. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 94(3), 742-751.

Saltelli, A., Chan, K., & Scott, E. M. (Eds.). (2000). Sensitivity analysis (Vol. 134). New York: Wiley.

Sobol', I. M., & Levitan, Y. L. (1999). On the use of variance reducing multipliers in Monte Carlo computations of a global sensitivity index. Computer Physics Communications, 117(1), 52-61.



For questions or comments, please email Derek Bingham at: dbingham@stat.sfu.ca.



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