Acquisition of project-specific assets with bayesian updating

Operations Research

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1119-1130

  Kwon, H Dharma ^a   Lippman, Steven A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL RATES; BAYESIAN UPDATING; DECISION ANALYSIS: SEQUENTIAL; DECISION MODELS; INFINITE HORIZONS; INHERENT NOISE; INVESTMENT CRITERIA; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROFITABILITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 81455141804     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1110.0949     Document Type: Article

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