The efficiency of control variates in multiresponse simulation

  • Authors:
  • Sekhar Venkatraman;James R. Wilson

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 47997, USA;School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 47997, USA

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

When control variates are applied to a simulation with multiple responses some of the potential effeciency improvement is lost if the optimal control coefficients must be estimated. To quantify this phenomenon, we formulate a variance ratio and a loss factor that are substantially simpler than the corresponding efficiency measures developed recently by Rubinstein and Marcus [12].