A practical and accurate alternative to pert

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 92, Issue , 2006, Pages 3-23

  Dodin, Bajis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Extreme value distribution; Normal distribution; Project completion time; Stochastic activity networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868302310     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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