%0 Journal Article %@ 1060-0396 %A Ermoliev, Y. %A Knopov, P.S. %D 2006 %F iiasa:13455 %I Springer %J Cybernetics and Systems Analysis %K Empirical mean method; Estimate; Estimation; Optimization; Risk %N 6 %P 773-785 %R 10.1007/s10559-006-0118-z %T Method of empirical means in stochastic programming problems %U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13455/ %V 42 %X This paper deals with the empirical mean method, which is one of the most well-known methods of solving stochastic programming problems. The authors present their results obtained in recent years and discuss their application to estimation and identification problems.