Profitability evaluation for newsboy-type product with normally distributed demand

European Journal of Industrial Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-15

  Su, R H ^a   Pearn, W L ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hypothesis testing; Index; Newsboy; Profitability evaluation

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; TESTING;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; COMPETITIVE MARKETS; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; EVALUATION RESULTS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDEX; NEWSBOY; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84873106302     PISSN: 17515254     EISSN: 17515262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/EJIE.2013.051599     Document Type: Article

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