...David A. Collier; Susan M. Meyer This research is the first study to evaluate and compare alternative service positioning matrices using rigorous statistical analysis and a common data set based on a variety of service processes. The matrices are evaluated based on five guidelines: clarity...

... was investigated. Three priority rules were evaluated as to their performance on minimizing the makespan. These rules were the“greatest total processing time” first rule, the“least total processing time” first rule and a“RANDOM” assignment rule. Statistical tests were used to evaluate the efficacy of the rules...

... capabilities are not explicitly considered; the manufacturing competence index appears to have more significant statistical relationships with some performance measures (such as the return on assets and return on sales) than with others – manufacturing matters, but not equally to all the financial and market...

... Decision making Industrial purchasing Multivariate analysis Production methods Robotics Statistics A Robust Multivariate Statistical Procedure for Evaluation and Selection of Industrial Robots David E. Booth Kent State University, Ohio, USA Moutaz Khouja The University of North Carolina, Charlotte...

... of the median for a moderate size of data is much easier than that of the average. Most of the time, the median can easily be found by inspection. To compare the forecasting accuracy of the two methods, 400 time series of sizes 15 and 20 are simulated from the SPSSX statistical package in the VAX 11/780 system...

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