A Company Is About to Develop and Then Market a New

question 75

Essay

A company is about to develop and then market a new product. It wants to build a simulation model for the entire process, and one key uncertain input is the development time, which is measured in an integer number of months. For each of the scenarios in the questions below, choose an "appropriate" distribution, together with its parameters, and explain your choice.
-Company experts believe the development time will be from 5 to 9 months, but they have absolutely no idea which of these will result.

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Definitions:

Prime Mover

A prime mover, in anatomy and physiology, refers to the muscle that plays a leading role in performing a particular movement by contracting, while other muscles may play supportive or stabilizing roles.

Fixator

A muscle or muscle group that stabilizes the origin of another muscle to enable effective action of the muscle.

Antagonist

A substance that binds to a receptor and blocks or dampens a biological response by inhibiting the effect of an agonist.

Agonist

An agonist is a chemical that binds to a receptor and activates the receptor to produce a biological response.