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Record 1 2015-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic Planning
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

... The process of assigning random values to variables affecting the outcome and calculation of the outcome is then simply repeated many times to build up a probability distribution of outcomes. ... Having calculated the total distribution of outcomes ... the analyst can then summarize the implications of the distribution for the decision-maker by computing the usual estimates of central tendency and dispersion such as the mean and the standard deviation or variance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification économique
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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