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Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment
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Discrete Event Simulation for Health Technology Assessment

by J. Jaime Caro, Jörgen Möller, Jonathan Karnon, James Stahl, Jack Ishak
October 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
374 pages
13h 23m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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245Efciency and Variance Reduction
An obvious one is the capabilities of the computer used to do the calculations.
Both the speed and number of processors available are important deter-
minants. If the software can utilize multiple cores (e.g., in the computer or
in the cloud) and the model can run in parallel across various processors
(Fujimoto etal. 2010; Taylor etal. 2011), then the execution time can be cut
down substantially.
The next obvious factor is the number of calculations required by the model.
The volume of computations in a replication depends on the numberof enti-
ties simulated, how often their experience is updated, and the number of
events and the complexity of the logic that needs to be processed. The more
transactions the ...
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