Applied mathematics – John – Dec 21, 2015, 2:04 PM

Suppose project completion time follows a Pareto (power law) distribution with parameter α. That is, for t > 1, the probability that completion time is bigger than t is t. (We start out time at t = 1 because that makes the calculations a…

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