Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation

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Overview

The Role of Statistics in

Transportation Engineering

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    take an introductory

course in probability and statistics as undergraduates and, if they

pursue further studies, a more in-depth statistics course as graduate stu-

dents. Rarely do these courses have a specic transportation focus. is

is problematic because the problems that they will encounter in their

working careers tend to be dierent from those taught in the generic

introductory courses. e relationships that need to be modeled are com-

plex, and the variables are oen categorical in nature. In addition, a large ...