The Use of Versatile Distribution Families in Some Stochastic Inventory Calculations

DOI10.2307/2581188zbMath0443.90024OpenAlexW4247741728MaRDI QIDQ3887181

Hon-Shiang Lau, John F. Kottas

Publication date: 1980

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2581188

zbMATH Keywords

normal pdfgamma pdfWeibull pdfstochastic inventory problemsversatile distribution families

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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