PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
Type: Method pattern body
Status: Stable
Primary working result: robust regions, reversals, and information priorities for one decision-support comparison: the conditions…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
Use the illustrative F and M slice from PSDA.8: F costs 8 incremental budget units and loses 2 service hours with normal access or 3 with road loss; M costs 5 and loses 1 or 9 hours. N remains the baseline and S still has an unqualified whole-arrangement…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:4 - Solution
Declare the claim and variation space, challenge it with the least costly tests that cover the live failure mechanisms, and return supported regions, reversals, and bounded information questions. Keep the actual later decision separate…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:10 - Rationale
A decision-support result is strengthened by exposing its reversal conditions, not by defending one point estimate. Separating uncertainty, values, model structure, and response capability prevents robustness from becoming a general…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:9 - Consequences
The recipient learns not only what currently compares favorably but where the conclusion can fail. A retained set or conditional recommendation can be more useful than a fragile winner. The cost is targeted recomparison and explicit…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:2 - Problem
A one-point ranking can hide a narrow region of support. Small changes in a value trade-off can reverse it; a common-cause failure can defeat every alternative; a different model can change which conditions are even represented.
Sensitivity…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:3 - Forces
Force Tension Coverage and effort Joint or structural changes can matter, while unrestricted scenario expansion consumes the available time.
Stability and truth Repeated agreement supports only the tested model and region, not the omitted…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:6 - Bias-Annotation
Scope: robustness and information questions for bounded decision support. Lenses: Epist distinguishes model stability from truth; Prag tests decision relevance; Arch exposes interactions and omitted alternatives; Gov preserves…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:7 - Conformance Checklist
The exact comparison, subject, configuration, horizon, and robustness claim are stated.
The robustness criterion is explicit and not chosen after seeing the preferred winner.
Variation ranges, scenarios, dependencies, and…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:12 - Relations
PSDA.8 may supply the consequence comparison and its evidence for the same configuration and horizon. Evidence enables this test but does not establish its result.
PSDA.14 may consume robust regions, reversals, and information priorities…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:5.3 - Cheap non-use and honest stop
A current analysis already proves the same service comparison throughout the relevant parameter interval, and the only proposed new computation repeats interior points without challenging another assumption. Reuse…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:1 - Problem frame
Use this when a favored alternative depends on a forecast, weight, model, or threshold that might change, or when a precise ranking hides plausible reversals. Also use it when the recipient asks whether further information would…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
… reopens the result. PSDA.14 may use this evidence for the same configuration and horizon to compose a recommendation. Evidence does not entail that recommendation or the later receiving decision. An unavailable, stale, or incompatible robustness result can be…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
Recover the exact alternatives, consequence comparison, value basis, subject, configuration, horizon, and receiving use. Use PSDA.8's comparison and evidence only where they match those conditions. A qualified direct comparison can supply the same input.…
In PSDA.9 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison
PSDA.9:4.4 - Map holding regions and reversals
Report which condition holds in each relevant region, where alternatives exchange order, where a threshold is crossed, and where the comparison becomes unsupported. Include boundaries and ties when they can…