%A Y. Ermoliev %A P.S. Knopov %J Cybernetics and Systems Analysis %T Method of empirical means in stochastic programming problems %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. %N 6 %K Empirical mean method; Estimate; Estimation; Optimization; Risk %P 773-785 %V 42 %D 2006 %I Springer %R 10.1007/s10559-006-0118-z %L iiasa13455