Properties of Batched Quadratic-Form Variance Parameter Estimators for Simulations

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-156

  Alexopoulos, Christos ^a   Goldsman, David ^a   Tokol, Gamze ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Earley Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulation; Statistical Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001909322     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.13.2.149.10518     Document Type: Article

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