Diagnostic accuracy under congestion

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-171

  Alizamir, Saed ^a   De Véricourt, Francis ^b   Sun, Peng ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Bayes' rule; Decision making; Dynamic programming; Information search; Queueing theory; Service operations

Indexed keywords

BASE RATE; BAYES' RULE; CONGESTED SYSTEMS; CONGESTION LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS; DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; IMPERFECT TESTS; INFORMATION SEARCH; OPTIMAL SEARCH INTERVAL; PRIOR PROBABILITY; SEARCH PROBLEM; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SERVICE OPERATIONS; SERVICE PROVIDER;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; QUEUEING THEORY;

SALES;

EID: 84874139314     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1576     Document Type: Article

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