Predicting the continuation of a function with applications to call center data

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2013.11.006zbMath1278.62013MaRDI QIDQ389291

Avishai Mandelbaum, Ya'acov Ritov, Yair Goldberg

Publication date: 20 January 2014

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2013.11.006

zbMATH Keywords

B-splines; functional data analysis; workload process; knot insertion algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62N02: Estimation in survival analysis and censored data

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• fda (R)

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