Gradient Computations and Geometrical Meaning of Importance Measures

• Published in: Quality technology & quantitative management Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 305 - 318
• Main Authors: Dui, Hongyan, Si, Shubin, Sun, Shudong, Cai, Zhiqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2013
• Subjects: geometrical meaning; Gradient; importance measures; partial derivative; system performance

Reliability importance is a scalar which is a partial derivative of system reliability function with respect to component reliability variable. Gradient is a vector consisting of partial derivatives of one continuous function with respect to all variables and gradient direction points in the directi...