期刊
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
卷 110, 期 509, 页码 6-15出版社
AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.941466
关键词
Autoregressive prior; Emergency medical services; Gaussian mixture model; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Nonhomogenous Poisson point process
资金
- NSF [CMMI-0926814, DMS-1209103, DMS-1007478]
Ambulance demand estimation at fine time and location scales is critical for fleet management and dynamic deployment. We are motivated by the problem of estimating the spatial distribution of ambulance demand in Toronto, Canada, as it changes over discrete 2 hr intervals. This large-scale dataset is sparse at the desired temporal resolutions and exhibits location-specific serial dependence, daily, and weekly seasonality. We address these challenges by introducing a novel characterization of time-varying Gaussian mixture models. We fix the mixture component distributions across all time periods to overcome data sparsity and accurately describe Toronto's spatial structure, while representing the complex spatio-temporal dynamics through time-varying mixture weights. We constrain the mixture weights to capture weekly seasonality, and apply a conditionally autoregressive prior on the mixture weights of each component to represent location-specific short-term serial dependence and daily seasonality. While estimation may be performed using a fixed number of mixture components, we also extend to estimate the number of components using birth-and-death Markov chain Monte Carlo. The proposed model is shown to give higher statistical predictive accuracy and to reduce the error in predicting emergency medical service operational performance by as much as two-thirds compared to a typical industry practice.
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