Warranty economic decision models: A summary and some suggested directions for future research

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 807-820

  Thomas, Marlin U ^a   Rao, Sridevi S ^a  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.6.807     Document Type: Article

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