Linear combinations of overlapping variance estimators for simulations

  • Authors:
  • Tûba Aktaran-Kalayci;David Goldsman

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • WSC '05 Proceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We examine properties of linear combinations of overlapping standardized time series area estimators for the variance parameter of a stationary stochastic process. We find that the linear combination estimators have lower bias and variance than their overlapping constituents and nonoverlapping counterparts; in fact, the new estimators also perform particularly well against the benchmark batch means estimator. We illustrate our findings with analytical and Monte Carlo examples.