Your company, Drones, INC, must decide on their path forward in regard to new or expanded facilities for drone production. The table below shows the potential profits/losses for each decision alternative in each of 4 market conditions (states of nature). Note that the numbers in red (with a minus sign) are losses. NOTE: I have provided some extra columns and rows for your computations. NÓTE THAT THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT. STATES OF NATURE FOR POTENTIAL MARKETS FOR DRONES DECISION ALTERNATIVES EXCELLENT GOOD FAIR POOR 6 $400,000 -$200,000 -$500,000 OPEN 2 NEW PLANTS FOR PRODUCTION $600,000 $200,000 -$100,000 -$300,000 OPEN 1 NEW PLANT FOR PRODUCTION $500,000 -$100,000 ΕXPAND CURRENT PLANT $150,000 $75,000 $0 DO NOTHING $0 $0 $0 $0
Addition Rule of Probability
It simply refers to the likelihood of an event taking place whenever the occurrence of an event is uncertain. The probability of a single event can be calculated by dividing the number of successful trials of that event by the total number of trials.
Expected Value
When a large number of trials are performed for any random variable ‘X’, the predicted result is most likely the mean of all the outcomes for the random variable and it is known as expected value also known as expectation. The expected value, also known as the expectation, is denoted by: E(X).
Probability Distributions
Understanding probability is necessary to know the probability distributions. In statistics, probability is how the uncertainty of an event is measured. This event can be anything. The most common examples include tossing a coin, rolling a die, or choosing a card. Each of these events has multiple possibilities. Every such possibility is measured with the help of probability. To be more precise, the probability is used for calculating the occurrence of events that may or may not happen. Probability does not give sure results. Unless the probability of any event is 1, the different outcomes may or may not happen in real life, regardless of how less or how more their probability is.
Basic Probability
The simple definition of probability it is a chance of the occurrence of an event. It is defined in numerical form and the probability value is between 0 to 1. The probability value 0 indicates that there is no chance of that event occurring and the probability value 1 indicates that the event will occur. Sum of the probability value must be 1. The probability value is never a negative number. If it happens, then recheck the calculation.
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![Your company, Drones, INC, must decide on their path forward in regard to new or expanded
facilities for drone production. The table below shows the potential profits/losses for each
decision alternative in each of 4 market conditions (states of nature). Note that the numbers in
red (with a minus sign) are losses. NOTE: I have provided some extra columns and rows for
your computations. NÓTE THAT THE OBJECTIVE IS TO MAXIMIZE PROFIT.
STATES OF NATURE FOR POTENTIAL
MARKETS FOR DRONES
DECISION
EXCELLENT GOOD
FAIR
POOR
ALTERNATIVES
OPEN 2 NEW
$600,000
$400,000 -$200,000 -$500,000
PLANTS FOR
PRODUCTION
OPEN 1 NEW
PLANT FOR
$200,000 -$100,000 -$300,000
$500,000
PRODUCTION
EΧPAND
$150,000
$75,000
$0
-$100,000
CURRENT
PLANT
DO NOTHING
$0
$0
$0
$0
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