Some Results Concerning the Estimation of Beta Distribution Parameters in PERT

DOI10.2307/2581949MaRDI QIDQ3742574zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nicholas R. Farnum, Laverne W. Stanton

Publication date 1987

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2581949

zbMATH Keywords

beta distributionestimating mean activity-timePERT analysisscheduling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Survival analysis and censored data (62N99)

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