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A spectral method for confidence interval generation and run length control in simulations

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 24, Issue 4
        Special issue on simulation modeling and statistical computing
        April 1981
        102 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/358598
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