Designing computer simulation experiments

  • Authors:
  • W. David Kelton

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Management Sciences, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

  • Venue:
  • WSC '88 Proceedings of the 20th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

This tutorial focuses on that part of a simulation study concerning setting the various specific model parameters and the experimental conditions under which the model will be exercised. Other issues in setting up and designing simulation experiments, such as variance reduction, ranking and selection, and optimization, are also mentioned. The focus is on careful choice of such parameters beforehand, with an eye toward the statistical analysis of the simulation's results. Output analysis is not treated per se, being covered in another tutorial in this conference (by Gordon Clark), but the design and analysis activities must be done hand in hand.