This paper investigates a widely quoted stock market index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (hereafter DJI), and constructs some alternative indices. Their performances are compared to the DJI. The question of applying the indices to problems of portfolio selection is explored when investors'...

Correction to the article Feeney, G. J., C. C. Sherbrooke. 1966. (s - 1, s) Inventory policy under compound poisson demand. Management Sci. 12(5, January) 391-411.

It is the purpose of this paper to suggest that inventory control operations involve two distinct types of problems which may be identified as tactical decision problems and strategic decision problems. The difference between these two types of problems will be discussed in more detail below....