Accession Number:

ADA109660

Title:

On the Accuracy of Simulated Percentage Points.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CA DEPT OF STATISTICS

Personal Author(s):

• Juritz,J. M.
• Juritz,J. W. F.
• Stephens,M. A.

Report Date:

1981-10-07

Pagination or Media Count:

14.0

Abstract:

The estimates of percentage points of a distribution, obtained from one large sample of Monte Carlo values, are compared with those obtained by dividing the large sample into several subsamples and taking the average. The single-sample method appears to be preferable. Author

Descriptors:

• *STATISTICAL SAMPLES
• *DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• SIMULATION
• MONTE CARLO METHOD
• PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS
• MEAN
• ORDER STATISTICS

Subject Categories:

• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE