Displaying statistical point estimators: The leading-digit procedure

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 407-412

  Song, Wheyming T ^a   Schmeiser, Bruce W ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON-ZERO DIGITS; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STANDARD ERRORS; STATISTICAL EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL INFORMATIONS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 60749089962     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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