Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2020-05
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Northeast Journal of Complex Systems, Volume 2, issue 1
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We present an English translation and discussion of an essay that a Japanese physicist, Torahiko Terada, wrote in 1922. In the essay, he described the waiting-time paradox, also called the bus paradox, which is a known mathematical phenomenon in queuing theory, stochastic processes, and modern temporal network analysis. He also observed and analyzed data on Tokyo City trams to verify the relevance of the waiting-time paradox to busy passengers in Tokyo at the time. This essay seems to be one of the earliest documentations of the waiting-time paradox in a sufficiently scientific manner.Description
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Masuda, N & Hiraoka, T 2020, ' Waiting-Time Paradox in 1922 ', Northeast Journal of Complex Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, 1 . https://doi.org/10.22191/nejcs/vol2/iss1/1