control variates to estimate the mean response in a designed simulation experiment. In Combined Method I, we perform h … implemented these three methods, along with the classical method of control variates, in a simulation model of a resource … degree of correlation between the control variates and the response. …

. We show that using \infty /\infty models as control variates for f/f systems can be an effective variance reduction …

number of control variates on the multivariate point and region estimators and the univariate point and interval estimators … to choose as a function of the number of responses and control variates. The results have implications for terminating …

This paper provides a unified development of the method of control variates for simulation experiments in which the … of this topic, we allow both the input and output of the metamodel to be multidimensional so that control variates can be … with a homogeneous covariance structure across the points of the experimental design, we develop control variates …

from 10% to 40% and confidence-interval reductions between 1% and 20%. The control-variates schemes yielded variance …

development of application procedures for three variance reduction techniques: antithetic sampling, control variates, and …