Using the Intermeans Parameter to Model the Textile Demand:
Statistical Analysis and Simulations

Pierre L. Douillet
Besoa Rabenasolo

Laboratoire Génie et Matériaux Textiles (gemtex-ensait)
9 rue de l'Ermitage, BP 30329,
59056 Roubaix Cedex 1, France
E-mail: pierre.douillet, besoa.rabenasolo@ensait.fr

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ABSTRACT:

The well-known "newsboy model" has an elegant analytical solution when playing against an exactly known probability distribution of the future demand. When playing against all the distributions sharing the same mean and variance, the Scarf's rule holds. In a previous paper, we have introduced another measure of the dispersion and we are now examinating hte statistical distribution of this parameter, and the associated information value.