Skart: A skewnessand autoregression-adjusted batch-means procedure for simulation analysis

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 387-395

  Tafazzoli, Ali ^a   Wilson, James R ^a   Lada, Emily K ^b   Steiger, Natalie M ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGRESSION; BATCH MEANS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COVERAGE PROBABILITIES; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; HEIDELBERGER; INITIALIZATION BIAS; NON NORMALITIES; SEQUENTIAL PROCEDURES; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; TEST PROCESS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 60749108639     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2008.4736092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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