The Analyst Waited Anxiously at His Computer and Finally the Answer

question 12

Multiple Choice

The analyst waited anxiously at his computer and finally the answer appeared - he would need 57 chickens to fund his retirement plan.Still, he had some nagging doubts about some assumptions he had made and he wondered how much faith he should put into the answer of 57.In order to test how reliable the figure 57 is, the analyst varied a number of parameters in the model and ran multiple tests for each set of input data.Each time, the model suggested he acquire 57 chickens - sometimes one more or one less, but never more than one chicken either side of 57.We could describe the solution as

• A)correct.
• B)static.
• C)parametric.
• D)robust.

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