Dakota Reference Manual: truncation_tolerance

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truncation_tolerance

Specify a percent of the response variance that should be captured with the random field representation. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITY.

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): REAL

## Description

This control allows the user to specify the percent variance to be capture in the random field representation (e.g. either a Karhunen-Loeve or Principal Components expansion). Typically, the user would specify something like 0.9 or 0.95, where 0.9 means that 90% of the variance of the response field will be captured by the random field. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITY UNDER ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT.

Default Behavior If the user specifies neither `trunction_tolerance` nor `expansion_bases`, then the truncation tolerance is set to 0.95 and the number of expansion bases that captures 95% of the variance will be used.