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Title: Statistical assessment of Monte Carlo distributional tallies

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1044137

Four tests are developed to assess the statistical reliability of distributional or mesh tallies. To this end, the relative variance density function is developed and its moments are studied using simplified, non-transport models. The statistical tests are performed upon the results of MCNP calculations of three different transport test problems and appear to show that the tests are appropriate indicators of global statistical quality.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1044137
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-10-08203; LA-UR-10-8203; TRN: US201214%%331
Resource Relation:
Conference: ANS 2011 Math & Computation Topical Mtg. ; May 8, 2011 ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English