In designing complex repairable systems it is often important to assess system MTTF for a variety of component reliability characteristics and repair capabilities. Two procedures are given for systems ...

The state transition matrix /spl Phi/(t)=e/sup At/ plays an important role in the state variable analysis of linear time-invariant circuits. In this paper, we give a method to compute the equivalent ...

We report extensive experiments showing that the phase transition in the first problem, matrix recovery from Gaussian measurements, coincides with the minimax risk curve in the second problem, matrix ...

Markov chains are frequently used in Operational Research to describe how a system changes over time, its behaviour being governed by its transition matrix. This paper describes a technique for ...

A key feature of transition diagrams is that the total proportion of transitions from (arrow coming out of) any given node must equal 1. Leslie Matrices Leslie matrices are a specialised type of ...

A method for calculating the implied no-recovery three-state transition matrix using observable population mortality incidence and disability prevalence rates among the elderly ...