Gradient Estimation for a Class of Systems with Bulk Services: A Problem in Public Transportation
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Keywords
sensitivity analysis; smoothed perturbation analysis; score function; measure-valued differentiation; bulk servers.;All these keywords.
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- C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods: General
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
- C44 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Operations Research; Statistical Decision Theory
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