Travel time estimation for ambulances using Bayesian data augmentation

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1139-1161

  Westgate, Bradford S ^a   Woodard, Dawn B ^a   Matteson, David S ^a   Henderson, Shane G ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Global Positioning System; Map matching; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Reversible jump

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879522589     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOAS626     Document Type: Article

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