Service Accessibility Analyzed with Novel Methods in May Issue

摘要

Service accessibility is the access of a community to the nearby site locations in a service network consisting of multiple geographically distributed service sites. Existing studies have had limited scope, both geographically (e.g., towns) and temporally (e.g., a one-year period). In "Clustering Random Curves Under Spatial Interdependence with Application to Service Accessibility," Huijing Jiang and Nicoleta Serban develop new statistical methodology to estimate and classify service accessibility patterns varying over a large geographic area and a period of 16 years. The focus of this study is on financial services, but it generally applies to any other service operation.