Statistical analysis of simulation output data: the practical state of the art

One of the most important but neglected aspects of a simulation study is the proper design and analysis of simulation experiments. In this tutorial we give a stateof-the-art presentation of what the practitioner really needs to know to be successful. We will discuss how to choose the simulation run length, the warmup-period duration (if any), and the required number of model replications (each using different random numbers). The talk concludes with a discussion of three critical pitfalls in simulation output-data analysis.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Averill M. Law
• Keywords: Modeling And Simulation, Simulation, Simulation Run Length, Simulation Study, WSC 2007