A Statistical Theory for PERT Critical Path Analysis

DOI10.1287/MNSC.12.10.B469MaRDI QIDQ5514186zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H. O. Hartley, A. W. Worthma

Publication date 1966

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.12.10.b469

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operations research

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• An upper bound on the expected completion time of PERT networks
• A new analytical algorithm and generation of Gaussian quadrature formula for stochastic network
• When greediness fails: examples from stochastic scheduling.
• Stochastic and fuzzy PERT
• The bias of an estimate of coupled slack in stochastic PERT networks
• A new structural mechanism for reducibility of stochastic PERT networks
• Risk taking in stochastic PERT networks
• Adjustment of the moments of the project completion times when activity times are exponentially distributed
• Proposal of a new distribution in PERT methodology
• Estimating the distribution function of a transformed random vector
• Evaluating the project completion time when activity networks follow beta distribution
• Stochastic networks and the extreme value distribution
• The exact overall time distribution of a project with uncertain task durations
• Stochastic PERT networks as models of cognition: Derivation of the mean, variance, and distribution of reaction time using order-of-processing (OP) diagrams
• The use of cutsets in Monte Carlo analysis of stochastic networks

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