Mean-variance analysis for the newsvendor problem

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1169-1180

  Choi, Tsan Ming ^a   Li, Duan ^b   Yan, Houmin ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Inventory; Mean variance (MV) analysis; Newsvendor problem; Risk; Risk attitude

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; SOLUTIONS;

INVENTORY; MEAN-VARIANCE (MV) ANALYSIS; NEWSVENDOR PROBLEM; RISK; RISK ATTITUDE;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 51449122040     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2008.2001057     Document Type: Article

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