Abstract
Many of the important fields of application of semi-Markov processes are covered by other sessions of this Symposium. Within this session attention is focussed on two major areas:
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social sciences, and especially manpower planning/mobility studies;
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medicine, including the analysis of survival data; (see the papers in this volume by D. J. Bartholomew and D.R. Cox, respectively). In this introduction a few applications in other areas will be discussed briefly. These areas are computer science, storage processes, social sciences (health care) and biology.
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Isham, V. (1986). Applications of semi-Markov processes: a miscellany. In: Janssen, J. (eds) Semi-Markov Models. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0574-1_27
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