Variance vs. Standard Deviation: Variability Reduction Through Operations Reversal

Roman Kapuscinski and Sridhar Tayur
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Roman Kapuscinski: Business School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Sridhar Tayur: Graduate School of Industrial Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890

Management Science, 1999, vol. 45, issue 5, 765-767

Abstract: We show that if the analysis of the model of Lee and Tang used standard deviation rather than variance, some nonintuitive predictions of their analysis would be eliminated.

Keywords: process design; variety management; operations resequencing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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