Joint economic selection of target mean and variance

Engineering Optimization

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Rahim, M Abdur ^a   Bhadury, Joyendu ^a   Al Sultan, Khaled S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint economic selection; Taguchi loss function; Target mean; Target variance

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

JOINT ECONOMIC SELECTION; OPTIMAL PROCESS MEAN; OPTIMAL TARGET MEAN; TAGUCHI LOSS FUNCTION; TARGET VARIANCE;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036035928     PISSN: 0305215X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03052150210913     Document Type: Article

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