Elevator Maintenance: A Series of Non-Traditional Haiku Derived From a Statistical Analysis of Elevator Malfunctions on the Campus of UCLA


elevator maintenance​
where there are 497 elevators
​distributed in 99 different buildings
​​
. . . . . . . . . . . .

hundreds of elevator problems
are reported and need to be solved
each month

. . . . . . . . . . . .

elevator malfunctions
spread in
a wide range

ELEVATOR – OUT OF ORDER
ELEVATOR DOORS
ELEVATOR STUCK & OCCUPIED
​​
. . . . . . . . . . . .

The causes
of these elevator problems
are various

. . . . . . . . . . . .

“What are the most frequent
types of elevator troubles
in a building?”

​​the large volume of reports
the variety of the types of elevator problems
the cost of repairing an elevator

the efficiency of the mechanics
the concerns of the manager
and the results

. . . . . . . . . . . .

visualize
the multi-dimensional information
of each elevator malfunction event

fifteen
categorical
variables

​rectangular tables
of
frequencies

contingency tables
with non negative
value

. . . . . . . . . . . .

make a
decomposition
and a graphical representation of

deviations
from
independence

. . . . . . . . . . . .

visualize
the results
the information



found poetry / blackout composition, source: “Correspondence Analysis of Elevator Malfunction Matrices, Chapter 1: Introduction,” a Master’s thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Statistics by Ting Zhou, UCLA, 2008.

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