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Traffic Count Data Analysis Using Mixtures of Kato--Jones Distributions

Applications 2024-07-10 v2

Abstract

We discuss the modelling of traffic count data that show the variation of traffic volume within a day. For the modelling, we apply mixtures of Kato-Jones distributions in which each component is unimodal and affords a wide range of skewness and kurtosis. We consider two methods for parameter estimation, namely, a modified method of moments and the maximum likelihood method. These methods were seen to be useful for fitting the proposed mixtures to our data. As a result, the variation in traffic volume was classified into the morning and evening traffic whose distributions have different shapes, particularly different degrees of skewness and kurtosis.

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@article{arxiv.2206.01355,
  title  = {Traffic Count Data Analysis Using Mixtures of Kato--Jones Distributions},
  author = {Kota Nagasaki and Shogo Kato and Wataru Nakanishi and M. C. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.01355},
  year   = {2024}
}
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