A Central-Limit-Theorem Version of the Periodic Little’s Law
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Abstract We establish a central-limit-theorem (CLT) version of the periodic Little’s law (PLL), which complements the sample-path and stationary versions of the PLL which we recently established in order to explain the remarkable accuracy in comparisons of data-generated model simulations to direct estimates from the data for the aggregate occupancy level in a hospital emergency department. Our CLT version of the PLL extends previous CLT versions of LL. As with the ordinary LL, the CLT version of the PLL is useful for statistical applications.
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