An approximation of the activity duration distribution in PERT.

DOI10.1016/S0305-0548(99)00129-XMaRDI QIDQ5932340zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. M. Premachandra

Publication date 2001

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0305-0548(99)00129-x

zbMATH Keywords

Beta distributionEstimating the mean and the variance of activity timesPERTProject management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50)

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