Panel data estimates, derived by using Hildreth and Houck's (1968) random coefficients model, suggest that welfare, education, and arts firms are "service maximizers," that health firms are budget ...

The objective coefficient ranging analysis, discussed in the last example, is useful for accessing the effects of changing costs and returns on the optimal solution if each objective function ...

Traditional sensitivity analysis in linear programming usually focuses on variations of one coefficient or term at a time. The tolerance approach was proposed to provide a decision maker with an ...

For each structural variable, the upper and lower ranges of the price (objective function coefficient) and the objective value are shown. The blocking variables, those variables that would enter the ...