This paper indicates how an information theoretic approach via the MDI (minimum discrimination information) statistic can be used to help provide a uniform approach to both statistical testing and estimation in various kinds of marketing analyses. Extensions to versions of the MDI statistic also...

This paper addresses the problem of generating a timetable for a given network of buses so as to maximize their synchronization. It attempts to maximize the number of simultaneous bus arrivals at the connection (transfer) nodes of the network. Transit schedulers, taking into account the...