Recruiter productivity and the Poisson distribution
By: Glenn F. Lindsay
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.). Dept. of Operations Research
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: PRODUCTIVITY; POISSON DENSITY FUNCTIONS; RECRUITING
Other titles: NPS-OR-94-011.
Description: Military recruiting productivity may be viewed as the number of successful enlistments in a      given recruiting time interval, and also as a Poisson-distributed random variable. One measure      of effectiveness for recruiters is the probability of meeting a specified minimum number of      enlistments (making mission). The Poisson model permits investigation of the impact on this      performance measure when the length of the mission period is changed, to when recruiter      production is aggregated as in station missioning. Immediate results are that less effective      recruiters benefit from shorter mission periods, while the effective recruiter will benefit from      longer mission periods. Also, estimates of this probability should be improved with the      Poisson model, rather than treating the attribute of making mission as a Bernoulli trial.      Poisson, Recruiting.
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"NPS-OR-94-011."

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 14).

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