SimBiology.gsa.ElementaryEffects
Object containing results from calculation of elementary effects for global sensitivity analysis (GSA)
Since R2021b
Description
The SimBiology.gsa.ElementaryEffects
object contains GSA results
returned by sbioelementaryeffects
. The object contains the computed elementary effects with
respect to parameter inputs.
Creation
Create a SimBiology.gsa.ElementaryEffects
object using sbioelementaryeffects
.
Properties
AbsoluteEffects
— Flag to use absolute values of elementary effects
true
(default) | false
Flag to use the absolute values of elementary effects, specified as true
or
false
. By default, the function uses the absolute values of
elementary effects. Using nonabsolute values can average out when calculating the mean. For
details, see Elementary Effects for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
Data Types: logical
Time
— Time points
column numeric vector
This property is read-only.
Time points at which elementary effects are computed, specified as a column numeric
vector. The property is []
if all observables are scalars.
Data Types: double
Results
— GSA results with elementary effects
structure array
This property is read-only.
GSA results with elementary effects, specified as a structure array. The size of the array is params-by-observables, where params is the number of input parameters (sensitivity inputs) and observables is the number of observables (sensitivity outputs).
Each structure contains the following fields.
Parameter
— Name of an input parameter, specified as a character vectorObservable
— Name of an observable, specified as a character vectorMean
— Mean of elementary effects, specified as a scalar or numeric vectorStandardDeviation
— Standard deviation of elementary effects, specified as a scalar or numeric vector
If all observables are scalar, then the Mean
and
StandardDeviation
fields are specified as scalars. If any
observables are vectors, Mean
and
StandardDeviation
are numeric vectors of length
Time
. If some observables are scalars and some are vectors,
scalar observables are scalar-expanded, where each time point has the same value.
Data Types: struct
GridLevel
— Discretization level of parameter domain
10
(default) | positive even integer
This property is read-only.
Discretization level of the parameter domain, specified as a positive even integer. This
parameter defines a grid of equidistant points in the parameter domain, where each dimension
is discretized using
points. The
following figure shows an example of a grid for parameters p1 and
p2 within given parameter bounds.Gridlevel
+1
For details, see Elementary Effects for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
Data Types: double
GridDelta
— Step size for computing elementary effects
GridLevel
/2
(default) | positive integer between 1 and GridLevel
GridLevel
/2This property is read-only.
Step size for computing elementary effects, specified as a positive integer between 1 and
GridLevel
. The step size is measured in terms of grid points
between neighboring points. The following figure shows examples of different grid delta
values.
For details, see Elementary Effects for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
Data Types: double
PointSelection
— Method to select sample points to compute elementary effects
"chain"
(default) | "radial"
This property is read-only.
Method to select sample points to compute elementary effects, specified as
"chain"
or "radial"
. The
"chain"
point selection uses the Morris method [1]. The
"radial"
point selection uses the Sohier method [2]. For details, see
Elementary Effects for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
Data Types: double
ParameterSamples
— Sampled parameter values
table
This property is read-only.
Sampled parameter values, specified as a table. The table contains
(1+numel(params))*NumberSamples
rows and
numel(params)
columns.
sbioelementaryeffects
uses blocks of
k+1
rows, where k is the
number of input params, to compute an elementary effect for each input parameter. The total number of these
blocks is equal to the total number of samples. You can get the block indices by running
kron((1:NumberSamples)',ones(numel(params)+1,1))
. For details, see
Elementary Effects for Global Sensitivity Analysis.
Data Types: table
Observables
— Names of model responses or observables
cell array of character vectors
This property is read-only.
Names of model responses or observables, specified as a cell array of character vectors.
Data Types: char
SimulationInfo
— Simulation information used for computing elementary effects
structure
This property is read-only.
Simulation information, such as simulation data and parameter samples, used for computing elementary effects, specified as a structure. The structure contains the following fields.
SimFunction
—SimFunction
object used for simulating model responses or observables.SimData
—SimData
array of size[NumberSamples,1]
, where NumberSamples is the number of samples. The array contains simulation results fromParameterSamples
.OutputTimes
— Numeric column vector containing the common time vector of allSimData
objects.Bounds
— Numeric matrix of size[params,2]
. params is the number of input parameters. The first column contains the lower bounds and the second column contains the upper bounds for sensitivity inputs.DoseTables
— Cell array of dose tables used for theSimFunction
evaluation.DoseTables
is the output ofgetTable(doseInput)
, where doseInput is the value specified for the'Doses'
name-value pair argument in the call tosbiosobol
,sbiompgsa
, orsbioelementaryeffects
. If no doses are applied, this field is set to[]
.ValidSample
— Logical vector of size[NumberSamples,1]
indicating whether a simulation for a particular sample failed. Resampling of the simulation data (SimData
) can result inNaN
values if the data is extrapolated. SuchSimData
are indicated as invalid.InterpolationMethod
— Name of the interpolation method forSimData
.SamplingMethod
— Name of the sampling method used to drawParameterSamples
.RandomState
— Structure containing the state ofrng
before drawingParameterSamples
.
Data Types: struct
Object Functions
resample | Resample Sobol indices or elementary effects to new time vector |
addobservable | Compute Sobol indices or elementary effects for new observable expression |
removeobservable | Remove Sobol indices or elementary effects of observables |
addsamples | Add additional samples to increase accuracy of Sobol indices or elementary effects analysis |
plotData | Plot quantile summary of model simulations from global sensitivity analysis (requires Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox) |
plot | Plot means and standard deviations of elementary effects |
bar | Plot magnitudes of means and standard deviations of elementary effects |
plotGrid | Plot parameter grid and points used to compute elementary effects |
Examples
Perform GSA by Computing Elementary Effects
Load the tumor growth model.
sbioloadproject tumor_growth_vpop_sa.sbproj
Get a variant with estimated parameters and the dose to apply to the model.
v = getvariant(m1);
d = getdose(m1,'interval_dose');
Get the active configset and set the tumor weight as the response.
cs = getconfigset(m1);
cs.RuntimeOptions.StatesToLog = 'tumor_weight';
Simulate the model and plot the tumor growth profile.
sbioplot(sbiosimulate(m1,cs,v,d));
Perform global sensitivity analysis (GSA) on the model to find the model parameters that the tumor growth is sensitive to.
First, define model parameters of interest, which are involved in the pharmacodynamics of the tumor growth. Define the model response as the tumor weight.
modelParamNames = {'L0','L1','w0','k1'}; outputName = 'tumor_weight';
Then perform GSA by computing the elementary effects using sbioelementaryeffects
. Use 100
as the number of samples and set ShowWaitBar
to true
to show the simulation progress.
rng('default');
eeResults = sbioelementaryeffects(m1,modelParamNames,outputName,Variants=v,Doses=d,NumberSamples=100,ShowWaitbar=true);
Show the median model response, the simulation results, and a shaded region covering 90% of the simulation results.
plotData(eeResults,ShowMedian=true,ShowMean=false);
You can adjust the quantile region to a different percentage by specifying Alphas
for the lower and upper quantiles of all model responses. For instance, an alpha
value of 0.1 plots a shaded region between the 100*alpha
and 100*(1-alpha)
quantiles of all simulated model responses.
plotData(eeResults,Alphas=0.1,ShowMedian=true,ShowMean=false);
Plot the time course of the means and standard deviations of the elementary effects.
h = plot(eeResults);
% Resize the figure.
h.Position(:) = [100 100 1280 800];
The mean of effects explains whether variations in input parameter values have any effect on the tumor weight response. The standard deviation of effects explains whether the sensitivity change is dependent on the location in the parameter domain.
From the mean of effects plots, parameters L1
and w0
seem to be the most sensitive parameters to the tumor weight before the dose is applied at t = 7. But, after the dose is applied, k1
and L0
become more sensitive parameters and contribute most to the after-dosing stage of the tumor weight. The plots of standard deviation of effects show more deviations for the larger parameter values in the later stage (t > 35) than for the before-dose stage of the tumor growth.
You can also display the magnitudes of the sensitivities in a bar plot. Each color shading represents a histogram representing values at different times. Darker colors mean that those values occur more often over the whole time course.
bar(eeResults);
You can also plot the parameter grids and samples used to compute the elementary effects.
plotGrid(eeResults)
You can specify more samples to increase the accuracy of the elementary effects, but the simulation can take longer to finish. Use addsamples
to add more samples.
eeResults2 = addsamples(eeResults,200);
The SimulationInfo
property of the result object contains various information for computing the elementary effects. For instance, the model simulation data (SimData) for each simulation using a set of parameter samples is stored in the SimData
field of the property. This field is an array of SimData
objects.
eeResults2.SimulationInfo.SimData
SimBiology SimData Array : 1500-by-1 Index: Name: ModelName: DataCount: 1 - Tumor Growth Model 1 2 - Tumor Growth Model 1 3 - Tumor Growth Model 1 ... 1500 - Tumor Growth Model 1
You can find out if any model simulation failed during the computation by checking the ValidSample
field of SimulationInfo
. In this example, the field shows no failed simulation runs.
all(eeResults2.SimulationInfo.ValidSample)
ans = logical
1
You can add custom expressions as observables and compute the elementary effects of the added observables. For example, you can compute the effects for the maximum tumor weight by defining a custom expression as follows.
% Suppress an information warning that is issued. warnSettings = warning('off', 'SimBiology:sbservices:SB_DIMANALYSISNOTDONE_MATLABFCN_UCON'); % Add the observable expression. eeObs = addobservable(eeResults2,'Maximum tumor_weight','max(tumor_weight)','Units','gram');
Plot the computed simulation results showing the 90% quantile region.
h2 = plotData(eeObs,ShowMedian=true,ShowMean=false); h2.Position(:) = [100 100 1500 800];
You can also remove the observable by specifying its name.
eeNoObs = removeobservable(eeObs,'Maximum tumor_weight');
Restore the warning settings.
warning(warnSettings);
References
[1] Morris, Max D. “Factorial Sampling Plans for Preliminary Computational Experiments.” Technometrics 33, no. 2 (May 1991): 161–74.
[2] Sohier, Henri, Jean-Loup Farges, and Helene Piet-Lahanier. “Improvement of the Representativity of the Morris Method for Air-Launch-to-Orbit Separation.” IFAC Proceedings Volumes 47, no. 3 (2014): 7954–59.
Version History
Introduced in R2021b
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