The Science of Standing in Line (wsj.com)

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For those who are interested in the actual implementation of these models check out simmer in R, SimPy in Python or SimJulia in Julia. Simmer was just released recently and has excellent examples/tutorials [0] for an introduction.

[0] http://r-simmer.org/articles/

Sam_Harris 9y ago ↗

Pay wall!

Coincoin 9y ago ↗

Click the "web" link at the top of this page. This will lead you to the Google search result for that article. From there, there won't be any pay wall as it is against Google's SEO rules.

fegu 9y ago ↗

Same paywalled result. If everything you found on Google was open then paywalls wouldn't exist.

eatbitseveryday 9y ago ↗

Article from NPR in 2010 where Professor Richard Larson was interviewed directly on the same subject[1] and even mentioned in the WSJ article, too.

[1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1301208...

ozzy6009 9y ago ↗

One result worth noting is that checkout line speed is faster when each worker has their own line. http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~yrosokha/docs/Humans%20Are%20Not%...