Stochastic simulation research in management science

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 855-868

  Nelson, Barry L ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiment design; Output analysis; Regenerative model; Simulation; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENT DESIGNS; OUTPUT ANALYSIS; REGENERATIVE MODELS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED LOGIC DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 3242886500     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0246     Document Type: Article

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