The MARKOV Process Approach to Survival Analysis

✍ Scribed by Prof. W. Y. Tan

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 293 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0323-3847
• DOI: 10.1002/bimj.4710230507

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Consider a two organs system for which one of the two organs must function for the individual to survive. This paper derives the survival probability distributions under more general situations by adopting Markov process approach, thus providing extensions of results given in GROSS, CLARK and LIU (1971) and KODLIN (1967). The results obtained are then extended to a k‐organs system.