Non-return Rates
MAT 259, 2021
Richard Jiang
Concept
An interesting concept in the management of a library is what to do when an is checked out and not returned. Motivated by this, I studied the library-wide phenomenon of non-returns. Specifically, I looked into the types of items and pieces of media that tend to get checked out and never returned. After constructing an approximate query for this, I investigated the rate at which non-returns occurs as function of media type, book type, year, and month.
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