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balk: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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balk1 CONSTRUCTBalkingHAIGHT · REFUSE QUEUE

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Queueing theory

An arrival refuses to join a long line

In queueing theory balking is the behaviour of an arriving customer who, seeing the line, declines to join it at all, so demand is lost before service rather than waiting in it. Haight's 1957 Queueing with balking gave the first formal treatment, letting the probability of joining fall as the queue lengthens and working out what that does to the system. The referent is a discouraged-arrival mechanism in a stochastic service model, measured by join probability and lost demand, unrelated to a pitcher's illegal motion beyond the shared idea of refusing to go through with something.[1][2]

Unit
The probability an arrival refuses to join the queue
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Modelled by a join probability that declines with queue length and the resulting lost arrivals

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References

  1. Haight, F. A. (1957). Queueing with balking. Biometrika, 44(3–4), 360–369. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/44.3-4.360
  2. Gross, D., Shortle, J. F., Thompson, J. M., & Harris, C. M. (2018). Fundamentals of queueing theory (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118943526

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