================================= Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) ================================= Global sensitivity analysis (GSA) aims at quantifying the sensitivity of the model response or quantity of interest (QoI) with respect to the variation of the uncertain parameters and inputs. In other words, the influence of each of the parameters in the propagated uncertainty in the QoI is measured. In contrast to the local sensitivity analysis, in GSA all the parameters are allowed to vary simultaneously over their admissible space, [Smith13]_. In :code:`UQit`, the Sobol sensitivity indices [Sobol01]_ are computed to measure GSA. .. _sobol-sect: Sobol Sensitivity Indices ------------------------- Theory ~~~~~~ The following short description has been taken from [Rezaeiravesh20]_. For more in depth review, the reader is referred to [Sobol01]_, Chapter 15 in [Smith13]_, and [Ghanem17]_. By analysis of variance (`ANOVA `_) or Sobol decomposition [Sobol01]_, a model function is decomposed as, .. math:: f(\mathbf{q}) = f_0 +\sum_{i=1}^p f_i(q_i) + \sum_{1\leq i`_ to see how to use :code:`UQit` to compute Sobol indices. The provided examples can also be seen as a way to validate the implementation of the methods in :code:`UQit`.