The Use of the Compound Poisson in Pert
- 1 April 1969
- journal article
- Published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in Management Science
- Vol. 15 (8)
- https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.15.8.b397
Abstract
The use of the normal or Beta distributions has become well established for PERT applications. The authors question whether the use of these standardized distributions yields the best answers in some cases and submits an alternative method of computing the critical path using a compound poisson distribution. This change requires adapting many of the PERT assumptions to the new distribution.Keywords
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