Indirect estimation of cycle time quantiles from discrete event simulation models using the cornish-fisher expansion

Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1377-1382

  McNeill, Jennifer E ^a   Mackulak, Gerald T ^a   Fowler, John W ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THROUGHPUT;

KURTOSIS; QUANTILE ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL SKEWNESS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 1642436891     PISSN: 02750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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