A proposal on improved procedures for estimating task-time distributions in PERT

DOI10.1016/0377-2217(93)E0213-HMaRDI QIDQ1127234zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. H. Smith

Publication date 13 August 1998

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217(93)e0213-h

zbMATH Keywords

PERT task-time estimation formulasprobabilistic network analysisproject management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35)

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