STATISTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN COMPUTER SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS,

Abstract

This report discusses some statistical questions related to the analysis of digital computer simulation experiments. The remarks are confined to systems simulations that are or that contain queueing networks; for example, inventory models and job shop manufacturing facilities. The basic assumption is that these systems contain elements of random behavior so that the system output is a random variable. This paper describes some fundamental statistical problems that should be recognized in a simulation experiment from the initial phase of problem definition through the final stage of analysis of results.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0653174

Entities

People

  • George S. Fishman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Control Simulators
  • Digital Computers
  • Inventory
  • Manufacturing
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Statistics
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Industrial Economics
  • Theoretical Analysis.