Modelling train delays with q-exponential functions
Abstract
We demonstrate that the distribution of train delays on the British railway network is accurately described by q-exponential functions. We explain this by constructing an underlying superstatistical model.
- Publication:
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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Pub Date:
- May 2007
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:physics/0611097
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhyA..378..498B
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Physics and Society;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Physics - Data Analysis;
- Statistics and Probability
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 5 figures
