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The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Apr., 2006), pp. 400-409 (10 pages) The classic Kriging variance formula is widely used in geostatistics and in the design and analysis ...

What does the variable overhead efficiency variance tell management? is the difference in direct and indirect costs between the actual time it takes to manufacture a product and the time budgeted for ...

This paper gives alternative derivations for the standard variance formulas in two-stage sampling. The derivations are based on a direct use of the statistical properties of the sampling errors in the ...

Your small business must account for inventory, yet no matter how diligent you are, there can be variances between what you actually have on hand and what your invoices and sales figures say you ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Bongaarts and Feeney have recently proposed an adjusted total fertility rate to disentangle tempo effects from changes in the quantum of ...

What is Fixed Production Overhead Variance? the analysis of a business's fixed costs (costs in a production company whether there is production or not) to determine whether the facility is operating ...