In: Statistics and Probability
Suppose the demands in successive weeks for your product are
normally distributed with mean 100 and...
Suppose the demands in successive weeks for your product are
normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 20 and
suppose your lead time for receiving a placed order is three weeks.
A quantity of interest to managers is the lead-time demand, the
total demanded over three weeks. Why does the formula for the
standard deviation of lead-time demand include a square root of 3?
What assumptions are behind this?