An approximate solution to the pert problem

Abstract The completion times of a set of paths of a PERT network are expressed as a multivariate normal distribution. Approximations are then proposed for computing the mean and standard deviation for the maximum from a set of multinormal variables. Results show the estimates to be very close to those obtained via simulation.

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