Refined descriptive sampling: A better approach to Monte Carlo simulation

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 143-160

  Tari, Megdouda ^a   Dahmani, Abdelnasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEJAIA   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Sampling; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SAMPLING;

DESCRIPTIVE SAMPLING; MONTE CARLO; PRIME SIZE; VARIANCE REDUCTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 27844542225     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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