Sensitivity Analysis of Thickness Assumptions for Piezoelectric Plate Models

Propagation of Thickness-Twist Waves in an Infinite Piezoelectric Plate

Thickness-twist waves in piezoelectric plates are widely used as the operating modes for acoustic wave resonators, filters, sensors, and other devices (Mindlin, 1965; Mindlin, 1967; Pearman, 1968; Bleustein, 1966; Bleustein, 1969; Yang et al., 2008a; Yang & Guo, 2006). Acoustic waves in these devices are driven by an alternating voltage applied to the electrodes deposited on the plates. Therefo...

Sensitivity analysis: distributional assumptions and confounding assumptions.

In a presentation of various methods for assessing the sensitivity of regression results to unmeasured confounding, Lin, Psaty, and Kronmal (1998, Biometrics54, 948-963) use a conditional independence assumption to derive algebraic relationships between the true exposure effect and the apparent exposure effect in a reduced model that does not control for the unmeasured confounding variable. How...

ANN-DEA Integrated Approach for Sensitivity Analysis in Efficiency Models

Here, we examine the capability of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in sensitivity analysis of the parameters of efficiency analysis model, namely data envelopment analysis (DEA). We are mainly interested to observe the required change of a group of parameters when another group goes under a managerial change, maintaining the score of the efficiency. In other words, this methodology provides a...

eAppendix for “Sensitivity Analysis Without Assumptions”

Sensitivity analysis and distributional assumptions

In a presentation of various methods for assessing the sensitivity of regression results to unmeasured confounding, Lin et al. (1998) use a conditional independence assumption to derive algebraic relationships between the true exposure e¤ect and the apparent exposure e¤ect in a reduced model which does not control for the unmeasured confounding variable. However, Hernán and Robins (1999) have n...