Global Sensitivity Analysis. The Primer

In the field of modelling it is easier to find academic papers, guidelines tailored to specific disciplines and handbooks of numerical simulation rather than plain textbooks of broad appeal. The various academic communities go about modelling largely independently of each other. Is this an indication that modelling is not a science but a craft, as argued by epistemologists? In other words, is it because it is impossible to define a single set of rules to encode natural or man-made systems into sets of mathematical rules called models?\nIf modelling is in fact characterized by such heterogeneity and lack of systematization, it might seem overly ambitious to offer a set of good\npractices of universal…