Quickly Assessing Contributions to Input Uncertainty

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 893-909

  Song, Eunhye ^a   Nelson, Barry L ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

input modeling; input uncertainty; output analysis; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INPUT DISTRIBUTIONS; INPUT MODELING; INPUT UNCERTAINTY; OUTPUT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ESTIMATOR; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; UNIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84931572956     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2014.980869     Document Type: Article

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