Statistical analysis on the cost and duration of public building projects

Journal of Management in Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Abu Hammad, Ayman A ^a   Ali, Souma M Alhaj ^b   Sweis, Ghaleb J ^c   Sweis, Rateb J ^c  

^a APPLIED SCIENCE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Construction costs; Construction management; Project delivery; Regression analysis; Regression analysisRegression models; Regression models; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION COSTS; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT; CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROJECT; PROJECT DELIVERY; REGRESSION ANALYSISREGRESSION MODELS; REGRESSION MODEL;

BUDGET CONTROL; BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; COSTS; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; METAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC WORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77949768133     PISSN: 0742597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0742-597X(2010)26:2(105)     Document Type: Article

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