Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Edition
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ISBN: 9781478623069
Author: Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc.
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Chapter 13.8, Problem 41P
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Indifference value of the item with a free replacement warranty.
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Exponential distribution is a probabilitydistribution which finds probability of an event to occur between independent constant rate and continous rate.
Probability is the likelihood of an event to occur.. It ranges between 0 to 1. O implies no chance of occurance while 1 implies 100% chance of occurance.
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Interpretation:
Whether the value of warranty larger or smaller than in exponential case.
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Exponential distribution is a probabilitydistribution which finds probability of an event to occur between independent constant rate and continous rate.
Probability is the likelihood of an event to occur.. It ranges between 0 to 1. O implies no chance of occurance while 1 implies 100% chance of occurance.
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