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The modeling representations of Chapter 2 and the programming concepts of Chapter 3 provide us with the ability to create relatively sophisticated simulation models and executable programs, but only after we have identified all sources of stochastic variation, specified sampling distributions that characterize each source, and assign numerical values to the parameters of the distributions. This chapter addresses these issues.
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Fishman, G.S. (2001). Preparing the Input. In: Discrete-Event Simulation. Springer Series in Operations Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3552-9_10
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