Conveners
INVITED Young Statisticians
- Christian Capezza (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II")
MTR, the major Hong Kong public transport provider, has been operating for 40 years with more than 1000 escalators in the railway network. These escalators are installed in various railway stations with different ages, vertical rises and workload. An escalator’s refurbishment is usually linked with its design life as recommended by the manufacturer. However, the actual useful life of an...
The advantages of being able to define precisely meaningful multivariate raw material specifications are enormous. They allow increasing the number of potential suppliers, by allowing a wider range of raw material properties, without compromising the Critical Quality Attributes (CQAs) of the final product. Despite their importance, specifications are usually defined in an arbitrary way based...
The family life cycle is a theoretical model that describes the different stages that a family normally goes through during its life. These stages are associated with changes in the family nucleus composition and with the relations between members. From a banking point of view, it is important to note that the financial needs of the family will also change throughout its life. Therefore, the...