Demand estimation and optimal policies in lost sales inventory systems

In this thesis, we study the statistical issues in lost sales inventory systems, focusing on the complexity arising from the stochastic demand. We model the demand by the Zero Inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution. The maximum likelihood estimator of the ZIP parameters taking censoring into account...

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Main Author: Ding, Xiaomei
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12944