Selection procedures with frequentist expected opportunity cost bounds

Operations Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 867-878

  Chick, Stephen E ^a   Wu, Yaozhong ^a  

^a INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Simulation: ranking and selection; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DECISION MAKING;

FREQUENTIST; PROBABILITY OF CORRECT SELECTION P(CS); SIMULATED ALTERNATIVES; SIMULATION: RANKING AND SELECTION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 27344432350     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0187     Document Type: Article

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