Work smarter, not harder: Guidelines for designing simulation experiments

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 47-57

  Sanchez, Susan M ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICS;

BASIC CONCEPTS; COMPLEX SIMULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (ED); ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATION MODELLING; SIMULATION STUDIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 46149102730     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2006.323037     Document Type: Conference Paper

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