The Data-Driven Newsvendor Problem: New Bounds and Insights

Consider the newsvendor model, but under the assumption that the underlying demand distribution is not known as part of the input. Instead, the only information available is a random, independent sample drawn from the demand distribution. This paper analyzes the sample average approximation (SAA) ap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Levi, Retsef, Perakis, Georgia, Uichanco, Joline
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111091
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1994-4875
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0888-9030

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