Control variates for screening, selection, and estimation of the best

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 52-75

  Nelson, Barry L ^a,b   Staum, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Control variates; Ranking and selection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL VARIATES; RANKING AND SELECTION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 33745193463     PISSN: 10493301     EISSN: 10493301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1122012.1122015     Document Type: Article

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