Comparisons and sensitivity study for investigation of factors of work sampling models

International Journal of Information and Management Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 43-58

  Shu, Ming Hung ^a   Hsu, Bi Min ^b   Lou, Kuo Ren ^c  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHENG SHIU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alternating Poisson Process; Delayed Randomization Model; Erlang Model; Fixed Random Mixture Model; Work Sampling

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING POISSON PROCESS; DELAYED RANDOMIZATION MODEL; ERLANG MODEL; FIXED-RANDOM MIXTURE MODEL; WORK SAMPLING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SAMPLING;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 4444219569     PISSN: 10171819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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