AbstractThe generation time is commonly defined as the mean age of mothers at birth. In matrix population models, a general formula is available to compute this quantity. However, it is complex and ...

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Markov Models for disease progression are common in medical decision making (see references below). The parameters in a Markov model can be estimated by observing the time it takes patients in any ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We have two aims in this paper. First, we generalize the well-known theory of matrix-geometric methods of Neuts to more complicated Markov ...