From Product Description to Cost: A Practical Approach

Volume 2: Building a Specific Model
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84996-549-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Decision Engineering

Cost estimating is a powerful tool in industry and business. Anyone involved in cost estimating will find this book extremely useful because of the real life examples, which mean they can use the information in real situations immediately.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foussier, Pierre Marie Maurice

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Entscheidungstheorie, Sozialwahltheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Operations Research
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Produktionsmanagement, Qualitätskontrolle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Kostenmanagement, Budgetierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Population and Sample.- From the Sample to the Population.- Describing the Population.- Typical Distributions.- Data Analysis Precedes the Search for a Specific Model.- Data Analysis on One Variable Only.- Data Analysis on Two Variables.- Simultaneous Data Analysis on J + 1 Quantitative Variables.- Working with Qualitative Variables.- Finding the Dynamic Center of a Multi-Variables Sample.- Finding the Center of the Cost Distribution for Choosing a Metric.- Looking for the Dynamic Center: The Bilinear Cases.- Using Several Quantitative Parameters: The Linear Cases.- Using Qualitative Variables.- Non-Linear Relationships.- Studying the Residuals Is as Important as Finding the Formula.- Studying the Additive Residuals.- The Other Residuals.- Building a Specific Model.- From Sample to Population.- Building the Model.

Über Autor(innen)

Pierre Foussier is manager of 3f, the company he founded in 1992 dedicated to the improvement of cost-estimating tools. In his job he develops parametric cost models and trains users of these models. As well as training project managers in cost-estimating, he often acts as a consultant for many diverse companies, carrying out independent cost estimates. 

Foussier is a co-founder of AFITEP – a French non-profit organisation specialising in the progress of cost-estimating, planning and project management. He is also the founder of XPAR, a non-profit organisation aiming to promote the parametric method of cost-estimating. XPAR recently merged with AFITEP and is now the working group of this society in the domain of parametrics.

So far in his career, Foussier has been involved in the development and production of some equipment and systems for use in the military industry. He has also been an engineer at the French space agency (CNES) and has nearly twenty years experience of cost estimating for major space projects.