Semi-Markov Chains and Hidden Semi-Markov Models toward Applications Their use in Reliability and DNA Analysis /

• Main Authors: Limnios, Nikolaos (Author), Barbu, Vlad Stefan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics, 191
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Bioinformatics.; Operations research.; Management science.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Operations Research, Management Science.

This book is concerned with the estimation of discrete-time semi-Markov and hidden semi-Markov processes. Semi-Markov processes are much more general and better adapted to applications than the Markov ones because sojourn times in any state can be arbitrarily distributed, as opposed to the geometric...