Sensitivity Analysis of Probabilistic Networks

Sensitivity analysis is a general technique for investigating the robustness of the output of a mathematical model and is performed for various different purposes. The practicability of conducting such an analysis of a probabilistic network has recently been studied extensively, resulting in a variety of new insights and effective methods, ranging from properties of the mathematical relation between a parameter and an output probability of interest, to methods for establishing the effects of parameter variation on decisions based on the output distribution computed from a network. In this paper, we present a survey of some of these research results and explain their significance.

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