Tutorial: Input uncertainty in outout analysis

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barton, Russell R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE SAMPLES; INPUT DISTRIBUTIONS; INPUT MODELS; INPUT UNCERTAINTY; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; REAL WORLD DATA; SIMULATION OUTPUT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION OUTPUTS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84874685603     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2012.6465266     Document Type: Conference Paper

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