How to Use operations research in a Sentence

operations research

noun
  • Lydia Elle, an operations research analyst in the space industry, and a single mom of a 10-year-old, was pleasantly surprised by at least one aspect of her new life: the disappearance of the stress from racing from the office to get her daughter.
    Lisa Selin Davis, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Johnson, who is from Montreal, majored in operations research and financial engineering.
    Corey Kilgannon, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2020
  • Mercer, who has degrees from Stanford University in biology, mathematics and operations research and engineering economic systems, is known to be a smart delegator.
    Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021
  • In addition to studying operations research and financial engineering, Johnson is also pursuing certificates in statistics and machine learning, applied and computational mathematics, and applications of computing, school officials said.
    Joshua Chung, USA TODAY, 12 May 2020
  • How many employees are skilled in statistics, operations research, predictive analytics, prescriptive analytics, etc, and understand concepts like: correlations, confidence levels on false or positive signals, clustering analytics, etc.
    Cindy Gordon, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021

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