A copula approach to inventory pooling problems with newsvendor products

International Series in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 176, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-101

  Aydin, Burcu ^a   Guler, Kemal ^a   Kayiş, Enis ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula approach; Inventory pooling; Multiple sources; Sklar s theorem; Total inventory levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955111869     PISSN: 08848289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-3600-3_3     Document Type: Chapter

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