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queuing theory: calculate probability of an urgent medical case
Hello everyone,
I am trying to learn about queuing theory. I have read about it and would like to understand how to solve the following:
If I run a hospital with patients coming in the emergency room, what is the average time a patient waits and what is the probability of a traumatic patient coming in the room that he must be served before the others and how will that affect the waiting time.
I believe I can apply little's law..
avg number of people being served = arrival rate * serving time
but I am a little confused, how can I merge the probability part along with the queuing theory part, is there some formula I can find to build on this.
So far, I have computed the average number of patients arriving per day (lambda), and the service rate (mu)..
which, according to this formula
server utilization = row = lambda / mu. Does this help?
I need to know if I am on the right track..
Thanks
Hello everyone,
I am trying to learn about queuing theory. I have read about it and would like to understand how to solve the following:
If I run a hospital with patients coming in the emergency room, what is the average time a patient waits and what is the probability of a traumatic patient coming in the room that he must be served before the others and how will that affect the waiting time.
I believe I can apply little's law..
avg number of people being served = arrival rate * serving time
but I am a little confused, how can I merge the probability part along with the queuing theory part, is there some formula I can find to build on this.
So far, I have computed the average number of patients arriving per day (lambda), and the service rate (mu)..
which, according to this formula
server utilization = row = lambda / mu. Does this help?
I need to know if I am on the right track..
Thanks