Exam 13: Simulation and Modeling

Discuss how you can discover whether or not a value (number of customers served in a restaurant) follows a statistical distribution.

A model must be an accurate representation of the physical system, but at the same time, it must be simple enough to implement as a program or set of equations and solve on a computer in a reasonable amount of time.

It is common for the output of a computational model to be displayed as a two-dimensional graph rather than a three-dimensional image.

____ is concerned with how to visually display a large data set in a way that is most helpful to users and that maximizes its comprehension.

List at least four reasons for the construction of a simulation model as opposed to the study of the system itself, or a physical replica of the system.

The clever use of visual enhancements such as ____ can make an enormous difference in how easy or hard it is to interpret the output of a computer model.

A model of a business in which customers walk into the store at random times employs a model that uses ____ rather than precise and exact equations.

____ is a design approach that says only when we think we have created the best design possible would we actually build it.

If we know the ____, then the computer can generate a sequence of random numbers that follows this pattern, and this sequence accurately models the time it takes to serve customers in real life.

One way to discover a pattern is to know something about the statistical distribution of quantities that behave in a similar way._________________________