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Hands-On Simulation Modeling with Python

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro
Book Image

Hands-On Simulation Modeling with Python

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro

Overview of this book

Simulation modeling helps you to create digital prototypes of physical models to analyze how they work and predict their performance in the real world. With this comprehensive guide, you'll understand various computational statistical simulations using Python. Starting with the fundamentals of simulation modeling, you'll understand concepts such as randomness and explore data generating processes, resampling methods, and bootstrapping techniques. You'll then cover key algorithms such as Monte Carlo simulations and Markov decision processes, which are used to develop numerical simulation models, and discover how they can be used to solve real-world problems. As you advance, you'll develop simulation models to help you get accurate results and enhance decision-making processes. Using optimization techniques, you'll learn to modify the performance of a model to improve results and make optimal use of resources. The book will guide you in creating a digital prototype using practical use cases for financial engineering, prototyping project management to improve planning, and simulating physical phenomena using neural networks. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to construct and deploy simulation models of your own to overcome real-world challenges.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Numerical Simulation
5
Section 2: Simulation Modeling Algorithms and Techniques
10
Section 3: Real-World Applications

Exploring generic methods for random distributions

Most programming languages provide users with functions for the generation of pseudorandom numbers with uniform distributions in the range of [0, 1]. These generators are, very often, considered to be continuous. However, in reality, they are discrete even if they have a very small discretization step. Any sequence of pseudorandom numbers can always be generated from a uniform distribution of random numbers. In the following sections, we will examine some methods that allow us to derive a generic distribution starting from a uniform distribution of random numbers.

The inverse transform sampling method

By having a PRNG with continuous and uniform distributions in the range of [0, 1], it is possible to generate continuous sequences with any probability distribution using the inverse transform sampling technique. Consider a continuous random variable, x, having a probability density function of f(x). The corresponding distribution...