Teachers of management science or quantitative methods in schools of business probably recognize the above passage as the beginning of a description of one of our discipline's favorite problems?the newsvendor problem. Known by many names....newsboy, Christmas tree, and single-period...

This comprehensive technical note explains linear regression. It is indended for students with no prior knowlede of the topic. It is devided into nine sections, which may be assigned separately: 1. The simple linear model, 2. Fitting the model using least squares, 3. Important properties of the...

This case provides an explanation of a Lotus worksheet built to implement exponential smoothing for the data in amp;quot;Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A. (B): Piedmont Operations Center Schedulingamp;quot; (UVA-OM-0664)

This case provides an explanation of a Lotus worksheet built to implement exponential smoothing for the data in amp;quot;Wachovia Bank and Trust Company, N.A. (B): Piedmont Operations Center Schedulingamp;quot; (UVA-OM-0664)