Queueing at the Tax Office

Statistical Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-23

  Tweedie, Richard ^a   Hall, Nell ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

Delays; Loss of customers; M m c queues; Server numbers; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041800288     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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