The Waiting Time Paradox, or, Why Is My Bus Always Late? | Pythonic Perambulations
The Waiting Time Paradox, or, Why Is My Bus Always Late? Thu 13 September 2018 Image Source: Wikipedia License CC-BY-SA 3.0 If you, like me, frequently commute via public transit, you may be familiar with the following situation: You arrive at the bus stop, ready to catch your bus: a line that adver...
Hasnain says:
This was a really cool analysis with ... math! and numbers! Highly recommend reading in detail
"The larger lesson here is that you should be careful about the assumptions you bring to any data analysis task. A Poisson process is a good description for arrival time data — sometimes. But just because one type of data sounds like another type of data, it does not mean that assumptions valid for one are necessarily valid for the other. Often assumptions that seem correct on their face can lead to conclusions that don't match reality."
Posted on 2018-10-28T19:02:27+0000