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In the past decade, Sobol's variance decomposition have been used as a tool - among others - in risk management. We show some links between global sensitivity analysis and stochastic ordering theories. This gives an argument in favor of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Areski Cousin , Alexandre Janon , Véronique Maume-Deschamps , Ibrahima Niang

Factor importance measures the impact of each feature on output prediction accuracy. Many existing works focus on the model-based importance, but an important feature in one learning algorithm may hold little significance in another model.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-24 Chaofan Huang , V. Roshan Joseph

The global sensitivity analysis of a complex numerical model often calls for the estimation of variance-based importance measures, named Sobol' indices. Metamodel-based techniques have been developed in order to replace the cpu…

Computation · Statistics 2011-04-22 Amandine Marrel , Bertrand Iooss , Michel Jullien , Beatrice Laurent , Elena Volkova

By considering a least squares approximation of a given square integrable function f:[0,1]^n --> R by a shifted L-statistic function (a shifted linear combination of order statistics), we define an index which measures the global influence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-15 Jean-Luc Marichal , Pierre Mathonet

Sobol' sensitivity indices allow to quantify the respective effects of random input variables and their combinations on the variance of mathematical model output. We focus on the problem of Sobol' indices estimation via a metamodeling…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Ivan I. Panin

The estimation of variance-based importance measures (called Sobol' indices) of the input variables of a numerical model can require a large number of model evaluations. It turns to be unacceptable for high-dimensional model involving a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Matieyendou Lamboni , Bertrand Iooss , Anne-Laure Popelin , Fabrice Gamboa

Global sensitivity analysis (GSA) quantifies the influence of uncertain variables in a mathematical model. The Sobol' indices, a commonly used tool in GSA, seek to do this by attributing to each variable its relative contribution to the…

Computation · Statistics 2018-12-19 Joseph Hart , Pierre Gremaud

Uncertainties exist in both physics-based and data-driven models. Variance-based sensitivity analysis characterizes how the variance of a model output is propagated from the model inputs. The Sobol index is one of the most widely used…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-09 Zhanlin Liu , Youngjun Choe

For models evaluated at a random set of independent variables, the variance-based Shapley effects range between Sobol' indices, and the corresponding total indices admit derivative-based upper-bounds. Such relationships fail when the inputs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Matieyendou Lamboni

Physical phenomena are commonly modeled by numerical simulators. Such codes can take as input a high number of uncertain parameters and it is important to identify their influences via a global sensitivity analysis (GSA). However, these…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-04 Matthias De Lozzo , Amandine Marrel

The global sensitivity analysis of a numerical model aims to quantify, by means of sensitivity indices estimate, the contributions of each uncertain input variable to the model output uncertainty. The so-called Sobol' indices, which are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Bertrand Iooss , Clémentine Prieur

Global sensitivity analysis is a powerful set of ideas and heuristics for understanding the importance and interplay between uncertain parameters in a computational model. Such a model is characterized by a set of input parameters and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-23 Chun Yui Wong , Pranay Seshadri , Geoffrey T. Parks

In global sensitivity analysis, the well known Sobol' sensitivity indices aim to quantify how the variance in the output of a mathematical model can be apportioned to the different variances of its input random variables. These indices are…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Nazih Benoumechiara , Kevin Elie-Dit-Cosaque

We propose a new importance sampling framework for the estimation and analysis of Sobol' indices. We focus on the estimation of the conditional second-moment quantity underlying these indices, which is the most challenging term to estimate.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Haythem Boucharif , Jérôme Morio , Paul Rochet

We define and study a generalization of Sobol sensitivity indices for the case of a vector output.

Applications · Statistics 2013-04-18 Fabrice Gamboa , Alexandre Janon , Thierry Klein , Agnès Lagnoux

We establish sensitivity analysis on the sphere. We present formulas that allow us to decompose a function $f\colon \mathbb S^d\rightarrow \mathbb R$ into a sum of terms $f_{\boldsymbol u,\boldsymbol \xi}$. The index $\boldsymbol u$ is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Laura Weidensager

This paper introduces generalized Sobol' indices, compares strategies for their estimation, and makes a systematic search for efficient estimators. Of particular interest are contrasts, sums of squares and indices of bilinear form which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-09 Art B. Owen

We study numerical integration of functions depending on an infinite number of variables. We provide lower error bounds for general deterministic linear algorithms and provide matching upper error bounds with the help of suitable multilevel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Josef Dick , Michael Gnewuch

Functional ANOVA offers a principled framework for interpretability by decomposing a model's prediction into main effects and higher-order interactions. For independent features, this decomposition is well-defined, strongly linked with SHAP…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-04 Baptiste Ferrere , Nicolas Bousquet , Fabrice Gamboa , Jean-Michel Loubes , Joseph Muré

In this paper we address the problem of efficient estimation of Sobol sensitivy indices. First, we focus on general functional integrals of conditional moments of the form $\E(\psi(\E(\varphi(Y)|X)))$ where $(X,Y)$ is a random vector with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Sébastien Da Veiga , Fabrice Gamboa