Empirical analysis of ambulance travel times: The case of Calgary emergency medical services

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 716-723

  Budge, Susan ^a   Ingolfsson, Armann ^a   Zerom, Dawit ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulance service; Nonparametric; Probability of coverage map; Travel

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; AMBULANCE SERVICES; CALGARY; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; COVERAGE MAP; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LOGARITHMIC TRANSFORMATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NON-PARAMETRIC ESTIMATES; TIME DISTRIBUTION; TRAVEL TIME;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY;

AMBULANCES;

EID: 77950819108     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1090.1142     Document Type: Article

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