Suppose you are a financial analyst and your company runs many simulation models to estimate the profitability of its projects. If you had to choose just two measures of the distribution of any important output, such as net profit, to report, which two would you choose? Why? What information would be missing if you reported only these two measures? How could they be misleading?

Suppose you are a financial analyst and your company runs many simulation models to estimate the profitability of its projects. If you had to choose just two measures of the distribution of any important output, such as net profit, to report, which two would you choose? Why? What information would be missing if you reported only these two measures? How could they be misleading?

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter11: Simulation Models

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 52P

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