Objective: A comparison of the implications of the application of the principles of equity and efficiency as two desirable but competing attributes of the organ allocation system. Efficiency is defined in economic terms as the standard cost per QALY model and equity considerations are included...

In an effort to meet the checked baggage screening explosive detection deadline established by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, the Transportation Security Administration placed hundreds of explosives detection system machines and thousands of explosives trace detection machines in...

Although simulation is widely used to select the best of several alternative system designs, and common random numbers is an important tool for reducing the computation effort of simulation experiments, there are surprisingly few tools available to help a simulation practitioner select the best...

Society has demanded reform in medical resident work scheduling; consequently, hospitals are implementing changes having organizational, clinical, financial, social, emotional, and educational consequences for physician training and patient care. We report the use of simulation modeling as an...

Simulated estimates for several proportions are needed in many simulation studies. We propose a method for controlling the length of a simulation run so that the proportions estimated satisfy a prespecified precision requirement. The method applies the arcsin transform in order to generate...

This paper presents a new method, called the batch quantile method, for estimating quantiles in regenerative simulations. The quantile estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal, and the method can be easily implemented and does not require prior knowledge of the range of values the data...