Variance Reduction Techniques for an Inventory Simulation.

Abstract

The author evaluates several variance reduction schemes for use in simulating inventory control systems. The methods investigated include several variants of antithetic variates, control variates and conditional Monte Carlo. Of these, it is found that the conditional Monte Carlo approach is the best single method. Slightly improved results are obtained when this method is combined with antithetic sampling.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015690

Entities

People

  • Richard Ehrhardt

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Control Systems
  • Inventory
  • Inventory Control
  • Sampling

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Regression Analysis.