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...

Table of Contents:

• Discrete-Time Renewal Processes
• Semi-Markov Chains
• Non parametric Estimation for Semi-Markov Chains
• Reliability Theory for Discrete-Time Semi-Markov Systems
• Hidden Semi-Markov Model and Estimation.