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General Note: |
Revised edition of: Introduction to stochastic processes in biostatistics. Wiley, 1968. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-502) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: 1. Random variables -- 2. Probability generating functions -- 3. Exponential-type distributions and maximum likelihood estimation -- 4. Branching process, random walk and ruin problem -- 5. Markov chains -- 6. Algebraic treatment of finite Markov chains -- 7. Renewal processes -- 8. Some stochastic models of population growth -- 9. A general birth process, an equality and an epidemic model -- 10. Birth-death processes and queuing processes -- 11. A simple illness-death process : Fix-Neyman process -- 12. Multiple transition probabilities in the simple illness death process -- 13. Multiple transition time in the simple illness death process : an alternating renewal process -- 14. The Kolmogorov differential equations and finite Markov processes -- 15. Kolmogorov differential equations and finite Markov processes, continuation -- 16. A general illness-death process -- 17. Migration processes and birth-illness-death processes. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Chiang, Chin Long, 1915- Introduction to stochastic processes and their applications. Huntington, N.Y. : R.E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1980 (OCoLC)565901417 |