Rational Choice of Input Distributions

Paul Bratley, Bennett L. Fox and Linus E. Schrage
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Paul Bratley: Université de Montréal, Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
Bennett L. Fox: University of Colorado, Department of Mathematics
Linus E. Schrage: University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business

Chapter Chapter 4 in A Guide to Simulation, 1987, pp 124-144 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Simulation incorporates the randomness of the real world. How do we decide upon the nature of this randomness? How do we specify distributions for our random variables? To make these decisions and specifications, we start from the data available. We have: (a) either lots of data or “little” data; (b) from either the distribution of interest or a “related” distribution.

Keywords: Poisson Process; Weibull Distribution; Rational Choice; Theoretical Distribution; Poisson Arrival (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8724-2_4

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