A statistical process control approach for estimating the warm-up period

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 439-446

  Robinson, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

QUEUING MODELS;

STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0036923791     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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