A conceptual framework for research in the analysis of simulation output
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation modeling and statistical computing
Design and analysis of simulation experiments
WSC '78 Proceedings of the 10th conference on Winter simulation - Volume 1
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the regenerative method for simulation analysis. The simulations we are concerned with here are simulations of stochastic systems, i.e., systems with random elements. The regenerative approach leads to a statistical methodology for analyzing the output of those simulations which have the property of “starting afresh probabilistically” from time to time. The class of such simulations is very large and very important, including simulations of a broad variety of queues and queueing networks, inventory systems, inspection, maintenance, and repair operations, and numerous other situations.