On the assessment of economic risk: Factorial design versus Monte Carlo methods

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-102

  Van Groenendaal, Willem J H ^a   Kleijnen, Jack P C ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RISKS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ECONOMIC RISK; HERTZ RISK ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT; NET PRESENT VALUE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031186317     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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