A macro approach to estimating correlated random variables in engineering production projects

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 883-892

  Hudak, David ^a   Maxwell, Mark ^a  

^a ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Cost analysis; Project management; Risk analysis; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; COST ACCOUNTING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM VARIABLES; RISK ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION MATRIX; COST RISK ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING PRODUCTION PROJECTS;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION;

EID: 34547992796     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190701411224     Document Type: Article

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