On the Distribution of Activity Time in PERT

DOI10.1057/JORS.1988.132MaRDI QIDQ3787781zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg

Publication date 1988

Published in The Journal of the Operational Research Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1988.132

zbMATH Keywords

activity-time distributionbeta distributionestimatesmeanPERTproject planningsimulationvariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical distribution theory (62E99) Survival analysis and censored data (62N99) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

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