Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
Library,Documentation and Information Science Division

“A research journal serves that narrow

borderland which separates the known from the unknown”

-P.C.Mahalanobis


Image from Google Jackets

Cost estimation : methods and tools / Gregory K. Mislick and Daniel A. Nussbaum.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley series in operations research and management sciencePublication details: New Jersey : Wiley, ©2015.Description: xxv, 311 p. : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781118536131 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.1552 23 M678
Contents:
1. "Looking Back: Reflections on Cost estimating" -- 2. Introduction to Cost Estimating -- 3. Non-DoD Acquisition and the Cost Estimating Process -- 4. Data Sources -- 5. Data Normalization -- 6. Statistics for Cost Estimators -- 7. Linear Regression Analysis -- 8. Multi-Variable Linear Regression Analysis -- 9. Intrinsically Linear Regression -- 10. Learning Curves: Unit Theory -- 11. Learning Curves: Cumulative Average Theory -- 12. Learning curves: production Breaks/Lost Learning -- 13. Wrap Rates and Step-Down Functions -- 14. Cost Factors and the Analogy Technique -- 15. Software Cost Estimation -- 16. Cost Benefit Analysis and Risk and Uncertainty -- 17. Epilogue: The Field of Cost Estimating and Analysis.
Summary: "Provides a step-by-step introduction to the need for cost estimation, the various applications, and the available resources for obtaining relevant data"--
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. "Looking Back: Reflections on Cost estimating" --
2. Introduction to Cost Estimating --
3. Non-DoD Acquisition and the Cost Estimating Process --
4. Data Sources --
5. Data Normalization --
6. Statistics for Cost Estimators --
7. Linear Regression Analysis --
8. Multi-Variable Linear Regression Analysis --
9. Intrinsically Linear Regression --
10. Learning Curves: Unit Theory --
11. Learning Curves: Cumulative Average Theory --
12. Learning curves: production Breaks/Lost Learning --
13. Wrap Rates and Step-Down Functions --
14. Cost Factors and the Analogy Technique --
15. Software Cost Estimation --
16. Cost Benefit Analysis and Risk and Uncertainty --
17. Epilogue: The Field of Cost Estimating and Analysis.

"Provides a step-by-step introduction to the need for cost estimation, the various applications, and the available resources for obtaining relevant data"--

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.
Library, Documentation and Information Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B T Road, Kolkata 700108, INDIA
Phone no. 91-33-2575 2100, Fax no. 91-33-2578 1412, ksatpathy@isical.ac.in