Practical statistical methods for call centres with a case study addressing urgent medical care delivery

DOI10.1007/S10479-014-1529-2zbMATH Open1359.62520OpenAlexW2010750816MaRDI QIDQ889569FDOQ889569

Authors: S. G. Stirling, David A. Wooff 

Publication date: 9 November 2015

Published in: Annals of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/11457/1/11457.pdf

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zbMATH Keywords

nonhomogeneous Poisson processnurse schedulingprediction intervalcall-centre forecastingdaily arrival patternpatient queue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90)

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• R
• RExcelInstaller

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