Distribution-free Monte Carlo simulation: Premise and refinement

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 352-360

  Yang, I Tung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Costs; Monte Carlo method; Optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION MATRICES; COST ESTIMATION; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 42549167434     PISSN: 07339364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9364(2008)134:5(352)     Document Type: Article

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