Variance reduction in simulations of loss models

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-523

  Srikant, Rayadurgam ^a   Whitt, Ward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b AT&T Shannon Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

STEADY-STATE BLOCKING PROBABILITIES; STOCHASTIC LOSS MODELS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032594184     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.4.509     Document Type: Article

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