A guide to simulation (2nd ed.)
A guide to simulation (2nd ed.)
Sensitivity of output performance measures to input distributions in queueing simulation modeling
Proceedings of the 29th conference on Winter simulation
Input data collection and analysis
WSC '84 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Winter simulation
ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
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This paper questions the conventional wisdom that “standard” distributions such as the normal, gamma, or beta families should necessarily be used to model inputs for simulation and proposes an alternative. Relevant criteria are the quality of the fits and the impact of the input distributions on effective use of variance reduction techniques and on variate-generation speed. The proposed alternative, a “quasi-empirical” distribution, looks good on all these measures.