Deborah Hollwager, a concessionaire for the Amway Center in Orlando, has developed a table of conditional values for the various alternatives (stocking decision) and states of nature (size of crowd): States of Nature (size of crowd) Alternatives Large Average Small Large Inventory $20,000 $10,000 -$2,000 Average Inventory $12,000 $12,000 $8,000 Small Inventory $10,000 $6,000 $5,000
Deborah Hollwager, a concessionaire for the Amway Center in Orlando, has developed a table of conditional values for the various alternatives (stocking decision) and states of nature (size of crowd): States of Nature (size of crowd) Alternatives Large Average Small Large Inventory $20,000 $10,000 -$2,000 Average Inventory $12,000 $12,000 $8,000 Small Inventory $10,000 $6,000 $5,000
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Deborah Hollwager, a concessionaire for the Amway Center in Orlando, has developed a table of conditional values for the
various alternatives (stocking decision) and states of nature (size of crowd):
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States of Nature (size of crowd)
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Alternatives
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Large
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Average
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Small
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Large Inventory
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$20,000
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$10,000
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-$2,000
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Average Inventory
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$12,000
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$12,000
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$8,000
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Small Inventory
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$10,000
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$6,000
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$5,000
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Probabilities associated with the states of nature are 0.35 for a large crowd, 0.50 for an average crowd, and 0.15 for a small crowd.
a) The alternative that provides Deborah the greatest expected monetary value__________
The EMV for this decision is $_______
b) For Deborah the expected value of the perfect information (EVPI) =$____
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The expected monetary value is the analysis of statistics which is useful in calculating the average overcome if the scenario may or may not happen in the future.
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