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Generation of Approximating Distributions through the Method of Stages [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1980.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Pages: 4 : digital, PDF file
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The method of stages is a technique for representing an arbitrary continuous probability distribution as a series of states (or stages), each of which has an exponentially distributed hold time. Through the use of the method of stages, a discrete-event stochastic simulation may be reduced to a Markov chain. Two techniques for generating the probability distribution function required by the method of stages are discussed. The first, Prony's method, requires evenly spaced samples of the probability functions to be matched. The second method is an iterative algorithm that uses every set of sample values of the required distribution, and, if the mean of the distribution is given, matches the mean exactly.
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E 1.99:bnl-27513
E 1.99: conf-800364-1
conf-800364-1
bnl-27513
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1980.
"bnl-27513"
" conf-800364-1"
Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, USA, 26 Mar 1980.
Noetzel, A. S.
Funding Information
EY-76-C-02-0016
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