Research Article

The Efficiency of Variance Reduction in Manufacturing and Service Systems: The Comparison of the Control Variates and Stratified Sampling

Table 5

The variances of ANC.

Levels1.Exponential2.Uniform3.Triangular4.Normal

1.Control variates0.00000010.00034590.00000010.0000002
0.00002230.00006630.00000070.0000032
0.0129500 0.0000000 0.00001910.0000003
0.0828200 0.0001932 0.0000023 0.0000010

2.Stratified sampling0.5360.167 0.1135.869
1.5920.5370.0452.664
0.6690.1670.0882.177
0.223 0.026 0.107 1.924