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Activity Number: 294
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #310132
Title: Classroom Simulation: Distributions of Sales and Queue Lengths at a Fast-Food Counter
Author(s): Eric Suess*+ and Bruce Trumbo and David Ahlberg
Companies: California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay and California State University, East Bay
Address: Department of Statistics, Hayward, CA, 94542,
Keywords: Simulation in R ; random sum of random variables ; queue length ; exponential/uniform relationship ; teaching
Abstract:

Lunch-hour sales at a fast food outlet are modeled and simulated using R. Concepts illustrated include: expectation, variance, and distribution of the sum of a random number of random variables; some relationships among binomial, Poisson, uniform, and exponential distributions; and average length of an M/M/s queue. Level suitable for upper-division probability students.

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