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Title Finding candidate options for investment : from building blocks to composite options and preliminary screening / Paul K. Davis [and others].

Publication Info. Santa Monica : Rand Corporation, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 70 pages) : illustrations.
Series Technical report ; TR-501-OSD
Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-501-OSD.
Note "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70).
Contents Introduction -- BCOT's structure and flow -- The centralized interface : inputs and outputs -- A notional example -- Conclusions and next steps -- Appendix A. Effectiveness calculations -- Appendix B. Subtleties in the concept of nearness to the efficient frontier -- Appendix C.A genetic algorithm approach for identifying good candidate options -- Appendix D. Changing building blocks or scenarios -- Appendix E. Changing list names (scenarios, focus, et cetera) -- Appendix F. Changing parameters -- Appendix G. Array operations used in BCOT -- Appendix H. Excel-based graphics for BCOT.
Summary This report describes a methodology and prototype tool, the Building Blocks to Composite Options Tool (BCOT), for identifying good candidate options to use in investment analysis.
Note Print version record.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Government purchasing -- United States -- Methodology.
Public investments -- United States -- Methodology.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Procurement -- Methodology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General.
Military planning -- Decision making. (OCoLC)fst01021374
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Davis, Paul K., 1943-
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Rand Corporation.
Other Form: Print version: Finding candidate options for investment. Santa Monica : Rand Corp., 2008 9780833042194 (DLC) 2008298183 (OCoLC)224897930
ISBN 9780833044884 (electronic bk.)
0833044885 (electronic bk.)
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