Article ID: | iaor1989717 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 1106 |
End Page Number: | 1119 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1989 |
Journal: | Management Science |
Authors: | Wendell Richard E., Ravi N. |
The tolerance approach to sensitivity analysis allows for simultaneous and independent variations of the elements of a column or a row of the coefficient matrix in a standard linear programming problem. In particular, the approach yields a maximum tolerance percentage within which the elements of a column may all vary simultaneously and independently from their estimated values while still retaining the same set of basic variables in an optimal soltuion. A similar result is also derived for the perturbations of the elements of a row.