Spiderplots versus Tornado Diagrams for Sensitivity Analysis¶
Eschenbach, T. G. (1992). Spiderplots versus Tornado Diagrams for Sensitivity Analysis. Interfaces, 22(6), 40-46.
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Primes¶
- Sensitivity Analysis (in Operations Research)
- Complexity-management leverage includes: focused-attention on critical parameters rather than uniform scrutiny of all inputs; explicit handling of uncertainty that would otherwise be ignored or crudely managed; and structured support for scenario-based reasoning that decision-makers naturally do but typically informally.
This sourceCompares spider plots and tornado diagrams as visualization tools for what-if and sensitivity analysis in engineering economics.
- Complexity-management leverage includes: focused-attention on critical parameters rather than uniform scrutiny of all inputs; explicit handling of uncertainty that would otherwise be ignored or crudely managed; and structured support for scenario-based reasoning that decision-makers naturally do but typically informally.
Mechanisms¶
- Sensitivity Testing
- Arrayed as a tornado diagram, the inputs rank by how far each swings the outcome, and two of them are wide enough to flip the decision on their own.
This sourceExplains that a tornado diagram summarizes and orders variables by their total impact on an outcome.
- Arrayed as a tornado diagram, the inputs rank by how far each swings the outcome, and two of them are wide enough to flip the decision on their own.
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