Controlled sequential bifurcation: A new factor-screening method for discrete-event simulation

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 743-755

  Wan, Hong ^a   Ankenman, Bruce E ^b   Nelson, Barry L ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor screening; Sequential bifurcation; Simulation: design of experiments; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FACTOR SCREENING; SEQUENTIAL BIFURCATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; THEOREM PROVING;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 33749457370     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0311     Document Type: Article

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