The two-sided power distribution for the treatment of the uncertainty in PERT

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 209-222

  Pérez, José García ^a   Rambaud, Salvador Cruz ^a   García, Lina B García ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beta; Constant variance; Mesokurtic; PERT; TSP distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 27244435843     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-005-0115-9     Document Type: Review

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