Replicated batch means for steady-state simulations

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 508-524

  Argon, Nilay Tanik ^a   Andradóttir, Sigrún ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch means; Confidence interval estimation; Initialization methods; Multiple replications

Indexed keywords

BATCH MEANS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION; INITIALIZATION METHODS; MULTIPLE REPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGISTICS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MARKOV PROCESSES; SAMPLING; STANDARDS;

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 33748362215     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20158     Document Type: Article

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