Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sun Sep 21 20:40:43 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8M3egmg018969 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:40:42 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8M3gxSJ007812 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:42:59 -0700 Message-Id: <200809220342.m8M3gxSJ007812@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: Statistics related question Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:42:59 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > Suppose the interarrival time for a customer is 3 units. Bookkeeping > takes 4 units of time. > So we sleep/select for 0 units. > My question is that when we calculate the statistics later in the > program, should we consider inter arrival time to be 3 or 4 for that > customer? Please see my message with timestamp "Sat 20 Sep 20:30". -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu