sep27.ppt

Simulation Experiments in
Statistics
A simulation study is an experiment
designed to learn about the behavior
of some procedure
• 0) Zero-th step is designing the experiment
• 1) First step is writing a function to compute
all of the results (arguments? global vars?)
• 2)Generate iid sample (indep columns)
• 3) Compute results for each column
• 4) Compare results – proper statistical analysis