Training School / Pharmaceutical Supply Chains 1
IST (Univ. of Lisbon), Lisboa, 26–28 April, 2017Program.pdf
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• Does 2 + 2 really equal 4 ?  ~Sum of two Gaussians
• The Supply Chain is related to Linear Programming (LP), typically including integer variables, i.e., Integer Programming (IP). This is usually called Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP).
 Software to solve LP or MILP is, among other, CPLEX (IBM ILOG CPLEX), named from the C programming language plus PLEX in the "Simplex Method" by George B. Dantzig (1947):  The best of the 20.th Century.pdf
• ~Linear Programming (my solver)
• NEOS Server State-of-the-Art solvers: submit a job to NEOS (LP: CPLEX, Gurobi, Mosek)
 Example: SAS_diet.lp, .xlsx
• Consider also Excel ("Solver") and Lindo (stand alone, and API)


• ~Simple linear regression (with frontiers) → There are many regressions (simple or multiple)...
• ~Errors, outliers calculation (2008 !)


• Some suggestions — For SI units and mathematical symbols: the (NIST) Thompson [2008] guide.pdf.
• How to write a report (UIUC) • Tech. reports.pdf (Wash. Univ.)

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