SENSITIVITY

Charles François (2004). SENSITIVITY, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 3017.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(2)
ID	◀ 3017 ▶
Object type	General information, Methodology or model

The minimum input needed to produce an output in some process.

The concept is widely used in simulation, as for example in Systems Dynamics.

Sensivity analysis aims at discovering how much the estimates used in a model can vary without impairing the outputs validity.