Adaptive control variates

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 621-629

  Kim, Sujin ^a   Henderson, Shane G ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERFORMANCE; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ASYMPTOTIC RATES; ESTIMATORS; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; VARIANCE REDUCTION;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 17744389627     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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