The article “Variance Reduction Techniques: Experimental Comparison and Analysis for Single Systems” (I-Sabuncuoglu, M. Fadiloglu. and S. Celik, IIE Transactions, 2008:538–551) describes a study of the effectiveness of the method of Latin Hypercube Sampling in reducing the variance of estimators of the
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