Phased capacity expansion - using continuous distributions to model prior beliefs

Engineering Economist

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-110

  Prueitt, George C ^a   Park, Chan S ^b  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE PROCESS; CAPACITY EXPANSION; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; DECISION PROBLEMS; EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; SEQUENTIAL DECISION MAKING; TECHNICAL INNOVATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION; PERT; PROBABILITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031355802     PISSN: 0013791X     EISSN: 15472701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00137919708903172     Document Type: Article

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