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Management Science Vol. 29 No. 7 1983

Achieving a Confidence Interval for Parameters Estimated by Simulation

Nabil R. Adam

Rutgers The State University, Newark, New Jersey

Abstract

This paper presents a procedure for determining the number of simulation observations required to achieve a preassigned confidence interval for means estimated by simulation. This procedure, which is simple to implement and efficient to use, is compared with two other methods for determining the required sample size in a simulation run. The empirical results show that this procedure gives good results in the precision of estimated means and in sample size requirement.

DOI
10.1287/mnsc.29.7.856
Volume
29
Issue
7
Pages
856-866
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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