Simulation Modeling and Analysis (5th Edition)
by Averill M. Law · McGraw-Hill Education
Reference treatment of the entire simulation study lifecycle: modeling methodology, probability review, fitting input distributions to data, random number and variate generation, verification and validation, output analysis, comparing alternative system configurations, variance reduction, and simulation-based optimization.
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