| Autor: |
Timothy Sullivan, Ufuk Topcu, Mike McKerns, Houman Owhadi |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
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| Zdroj: |
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 85:1499-1521 |
| ISSN: |
0029-5981 |
| Popis: |
We consider uncertainty quantification in the context of certification, i.e. showing that the probability of some ‘failure’ event is acceptably small. In this paper, we derive a new method for rigorous uncertainty quantification and conservative certification by combining McDiarmid's inequality with input domain partitioning and a new concentration-of-measure inequality. We show that arbitrarily sharp upper bounds on the probability of failure can be obtained by partitioning the input parameter space appropriately; in contrast, the bound provided by McDiarmid's inequality is usually not sharp. We prove an error estimate for the method (Proposition 3.2); we define a codimension-one recursive partitioning scheme and prove its convergence properties (Theorem 4.1); finally, we apply a new concentration-of-measure inequality to give confidence levels when empirical means are used in place of exact ones (Section 5). |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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