Optimal inventory policies when the demand distribution is not known

DOI10.1006/jeth.2000.2772zbMath1001.90005MaRDI QIDQ5956284

C. Erik Larson, Lars J. Olson, Sunil Kumar Sharma

Publication date: 20 February 2002

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/workingpapers/wp631.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet process; inventory models; nonparametric Bayesian learning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62C10: Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

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