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Queues with Censored Demand and Autoregressive Net Input

Probability 2014-06-06 v2 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Abstract

We develop methods for simulating a queue with an autoregressive net-input process and for recovering characteristics of such a net-input process from samples of queue lengths. We apply these methods to the problem of estimating the censored (unsatisfied) demand for the queue's content and show how to model a queue for which the censoring of demand is graduated in a neighborhood of the queue's zero lower bound. As an example, we estimate the monthly unsatisfied demand for U.S. nonfarm jobs based on samples of job openings through a period including the last two recessions.

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@article{arxiv.1104.4777,
  title  = {Queues with Censored Demand and Autoregressive Net Input},
  author = {Kerry Fendick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.4777},
  year   = {2014}
}

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61 pages

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