On the Distribution of Activity Time in PERT

DOI10.1057/jors.1988.132zbMath0644.90051OpenAlexW1997806784MaRDI QIDQ3787781

Dimitri Golenko-Ginzburg

Publication date: 1988

Published in: 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

simulationestimatesmeanvariancePERTbeta distributionproject planningactivity-time distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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