Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation

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Table of Contents

Preface, xvii

Acknowledgments, xxiii

About the Authors, xxv

How to Contact the Authors and Access the Data Sets, xxvii

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h a p t e r ▪ Overview: The Role of Statistics in

Transportation Engineering 1

1.1 WHAT IS ENGINEERING? 2

1.2 WHAT IS TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING? 5

1.3 GOAL OF THE TEXTBOOK 7

1.4 OVERVIEW OF THE TEXTBOOK 7

1.5 WHO IS THE AUDIENCE FOR THIS TEXTBOOK? 8

1.6 RELAX—EVERYTHING IS FINE 8

REFERENCES 9

2Ch a p t e r ▪ Graphical Methods for Displaying Data 11

2.1 INTRODUCTION 11

2.2 HISTOGRAM 13

2.3 BOX AND WHISKER PLOT 16

2.4 QUANTILE PLOT 18

2.5 SCATTER PLOT 19

2.6 PARALLEL PLOT 22

2.7 TIME SERIES P ...