Exercising Occam's Razor: Sensitivity Screening Methods as Applied to Building Energy Models

Building Energy Models are complex and have a lot of inputs, and a minority of the inputs them have a significant effect on a result.  Sensitivity screening tools are designed to be computationally cheap (requiring a relatively small number of simulations) as they rank the model inputs in order of their influence on a particular output.  The goal is to identify which model inputs require the modelers attention, and which can be ignored.  Speakers in this session discuss and demonstrate the use of the Morris Method, a commonly used sensitivity screening algorithm.