A Concessionaire for the Local Ballpark Has Developed a Table

question 74

Essay

A concessionaire for the local ballpark has developed a table of conditional values for the various alternatives (stocking decision) and states of nature (size of crowd). If the probabilities associated with the states of nature are 0.30 for a large crowd, 0.50 for an average crowd, and 0.20 for a small crowd, determine:
(a) the opportunity loss table.
(b) minimum expected opportunity loss (EOL).

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A company involved in the business of packaging beverages for distribution and sale.

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