Using imivariate Bézier distributions to model simulation input processes

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 699-711

  Wagner, Mary Ann Flanigan ^a,b   Wilson, James R ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

OPEN ENDED PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILISTIC INPUT MODELING ENVIRONMENT; SIMULATION INPUT PROCESSES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WINDOWS; UNIVARIATE BEZIER DISTRIBUTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030245060     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15458830.1996.11770716     Document Type: Article

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