the analysis of problems in business and industry involving the construction of models and the application of linear programming, critical path analysis, and other quantitative techniques
Also: operational research
Examples of 'operational research' in a sentence
operational research
Perhaps the greatest success for operational research during the war was the application of statistical analysis to the convoy war.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
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