Article ID: | iaor20033023 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 277 |
End Page Number: | 293 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2001 |
Journal: | INFORMS Journal On Computing |
Authors: | Wilson James R., Steiger Natalie M. |
We examine key convergence properties of the steady-state simulation analysis method of nonoverlapping batch means (NOBM) when it is applied to a stationary, phi-mixing process. For an increasing batch size and a fixed batch count, we show that the standardized vector of batch means converges in distribution to a vector of independent standard normal variates – a well-known result underlying the NOBM method for which there appears to be no direct, readily accessible justification. To characterize the asymptotic behavior of the classical NOBM confidence interval for the mean response, we formulate certain moment conditions on the components (numerator and denominator) of the associated Student's