✦ LIBER ✦
The steady-state probabilities for regenerative semi-Markov processes with application to prevention and screening
✍ Scribed by Davidov, Ori
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8755-0024
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✦ Synopsis
There is a growing interest in planning and implementing broad-scale clinical trials with a focus on prevention and screening. Often, the data-generating mechanism for such experiments can be viewed as a semi-Markov process. In this communication, we develop general expressions for the steady-state probabilities for regenerative semi-Markov processes. Hence, the probability of being in a certain state at the time of recruitment to a clinical trial can be calculated. An application to breast cancer prevention is demonstrated.