Performance evaluation of nursing homes is usually accomplished by the repeated administration of questionnaires aimed at measuring the health status of the patients during their period of residence ...

A family of learning models that integrates a cognitive diagnostic model and a higher-order, hidden Markov model in one framework is proposed. This new framework includes covariates to model skill ...

Functional safety standards such as IE 61508 invite the use of Markov modeling to help model safety, maintainability and reliability. A brief primer on what Markov is and how and when to apply it.

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation A stochastic volatility model where volatility was driven solely by a latent variable called news was estimated for three ...