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1 SIGMA Workshop Part 3: Statistical Screening Gönenç Yücel SESDYN Research Group Boğaziçi University, Istanbul 2 A brief introduction • What is stat screening? • What is it good for? • What does it rely on? • Altering uncertain (exogenous) model parameters • Relating the value of an outcome of interest to changes in parameter values • Uses correlation coefficient to quantify the degree and direction of relationship between a parameter and the value of the outcome at a certain time point 3 Background literature • Ford, A., & Flynn, H. (2005). Statistical screening of system dynamics models. System Dynamics Review, 21(4), 273–303. • Taylor, T., Ford, D., & Ford, A. (2007). Model Analysis Using Statistical Screening: Extensions and Example Applications . 25th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society. Boston: System Dynamics Society. • Taylor, T. R. B., David N. Ford, & Ford, A. (2010). Improving model understanding using statistical screening. System Dynamics Review, 26(1), 73–87. 4 Key Concept: Correlation Coefficients • A measure of the linear correlation (dependence) between two variables X and Y, giving a value between +1 and −1 inclusive, where • 1 is total positive correlation, • 0 is no correlation, and • −1 is total negative correlation. 5 Demo Model • Bass diffusion model • See Business Dynamics by Sterman (2000) for specifications of the model • Vensim version of the model is available in the Stat Screening folder on your computers 6 Selected Variables 1,000 70 1,000 500 35 500 0 0 0 0 10 20 Adopters : Base adoption rate : Base Potential Adopters : Base 30 40 50 60 Time (Month) 70 80 90 100 7 Our demo task • Perform a Statistical Screening Analysis on the demo model (i.e. Bass diffusion model) to evaluate the relative influence of • Two of the exogenous variables (i.e. contact rate and adoption fraction) and • The one exogenous initial condition (i.e. initial potential adopters). • Using the adoption rate (sales) as the main outcome of interest (performance variable). 8 Procedure A. Perform statistical screening to calculate correlation coefficients and to plot these over time B. Select a time period for analysis C. Identify high-leverage parameters. • High-leverage parameters are the parameters with the highest absolute correlation coefficient values during the selected time D. Create a list of high leverage parameters and their related model structures E. Use additional structure-behavior analysis methods (e.g. verbal reasoning, scenario analysis, behavioral analysis) to explain how each parameter the structures they influence drive the behavior of the system. 9 A. Calculating Correlation Coefficients 1. Select uncertain model input parameters and a single performance variable for analysis 2. Specify a distribution for each uncertain model parameter 3. Simulate the model using a combination of values from the specified distributions (e.g. Using Vensim’s Sensitivity Analysis feature) 4. Export the results of the simulation set 5. Pick up the Excel template that best fits the simulation set 6. Import the results from the simulation set to the Excel template, and observe the plot of the correlation coefficients 10 Steps A.1 & A.2 • Selected parameters, and distributions • Model parameters to be analyzed Parameter Reference Value Range to be Distribution Tested Contact rate 0.5 [0.25, 0.75] Uniform Adoption fraction 0.5 [0.25, 0.75] Uniform Initial Adopters 10 [5, 10] Uniform • Model output to be analyzed • Adoption rate 11 A. Calculating Correlation Coefficients 1. Select uncertain model input parameters and a single performance variable for analysis 2. Specify a distribution for each uncertain model parameter 3. Simulate the model using a combination of values from the specified distributions (e.g. Using Vensim’s Sensitivity Analysis feature) 4. Export the results of the simulation set 5. Pick up the Excel template that best fits the simulation set 6. Import the results from the simulation set to the Excel template, and observe the plot of the correlation coefficients 12 Conducting a set of simulations on Vensim • Monte Carlo option in Vensim • Lets us to specify ranges for the parameters as well as their distribution • We will need to specify 2 things • An input control file (.vsc file) • An output savelist file (.lst file) 13 14 Step A.3 Simulation with combinations of parameter values 15 16 17 18 A. Calculating Correlation Coefficients 1. Select uncertain model input parameters and a single performance variable for analysis 2. Specify a distribution for each uncertain model parameter 3. Simulate the model using a combination of values from the specified distributions (e.g. Using Vensim’s Sensitivity Analysis feature) 4. Export the results of the simulation set 5. Pick up the Excel template that best fits the simulation set 6. Import the results from the simulation set to the Excel template, and observe the plot of the correlation coefficients 19 A.4 Exporting the simulation results 20 21 22 A. Calculating Correlation Coefficients 1. Select uncertain model input parameters and a single performance variable for analysis 2. Specify a distribution for each uncertain model parameter 3. Simulate the model using a combination of values from the specified distributions (e.g. Using Vensim’s Sensitivity Analysis feature) 4. Export the results of the simulation set 5. Pick up the Excel template that best fits the simulation set 6. Import the results from the simulation set to the Excel template, and observe the plot of the correlation coefficients 23 A.5 Choosing an Excel template • Choosing the right template! • Number of parameters • Number of simulations • Number of data points in a single run • In our example, we have • 3 parameters • 200 simulations • 100 data points for each simulation • The right template would be StatScreenTemplate3inputs200runs100saveperiods.xls 24 A. Calculating Correlation Coefficients 1. Select uncertain model input parameters and a single performance variable for analysis 2. Specify a distribution for each uncertain model parameter 3. Simulate the model using a combination of values from the specified distributions (e.g. Using Vensim’s Sensitivity Analysis feature) 4. Export the results of the simulation set 5. Pick up the Excel template that best fits the simulation set 6. Import the results from the simulation set to the Excel template, and observe the plot of the correlation coefficients 25 A.6 Importing the simulations results to the Excel template 26 27 28 29 30 31 Self-study Practice • Repeat the statistical screening on a modified version of the simple Bass diffusion model • Modification: • Add a quitting flow that flows from the adopters to the potential adopters stock • The amount of the flow is defined as • Adopters * Quitting Fraction • Reference value of the quitting fraction is set to be 0.1 32