Coverage of confidence intervals in sequential steady-state simulation

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-267

  Pawlikowski, Krzysztof ^a   McNickle, Donald C ^a   Ewing, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Observed coverage; Simulation output analysis; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATE SPACE METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; OBSERVED COVERAGE; SIMULATION OUTPUT ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; OBSERVED COVERAGE;

EID: 0032026240     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4869(96)00030-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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