Optimal inventory policies when the demand distribution is not known

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 281-300

  Larson, C Erik ^a   Olson, Lars J ^b   Sharma, Sunil ^c  

^a OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process; Inventory models; Nonparametric Bayesian learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035213618     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.2000.2772     Document Type: Article

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