Contents

• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 2 ORGANIZATION OF THIS PAPER
• 3 MIN-MAX AND NEWSBOY MODEL
  • 3.1 Description of the newsboy problem
  • 3.2 Min-max solution for
  • 3.3 Min-max solution for
• 4 INTERMEANS PARAMETER PROPERTIES
  • 4.1 A measure of the dispersion
  • 4.2 Relations with the usual standard deviation
  • 4.3 Sampling properties
• 5 CONCLUSION
• Bibliography
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