Quantitative Analysis for Management, 13/e

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• Package delivery, 320

• Parallel activity, 399, 400

• Parameters, 4, 7, 76

  • problem, 82

• Parametric programming, 264. See also Sensitivity analysis

• Parents and material structure tree, 215

• Partitioning matrix of transition probabilities, 511

• Payoff/cost table, 205

• Payoff table, 64, 65, 75–77

• p-chart, 537–539

  • and Excel QM, 539, 547

• People, assigning projects to, 325–327

• Percent of work completed, 404

• Perfect information, 70–71, 74, 78, 82

• PERT. See Program evaluation and review technique (PERT); Program evaluation and review technique/critical path method (PERT/CPM)

• PERT/cost, 400–404

• PERT networks, 388

• Pessimistic criterion, 66–67

• Pessimistic time, 391

• Physical models, 4, 461

• Pilot plants, 4

• Pittsburgh Pirates, 12

• Planning phase, 186

• Plutonium, ...