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 ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke are the most common acute life-threatening cardiovascular disease (CVD) events and are triggered by the rupture of lipid-rich plaques in the arterial wall during ...

Goh, Joel, Mohsen Bayati, Stefanos A. Zenios, Sundeep Singh, and David Moore. "Data Uncertainty in Markov Chains: Application to Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Medical Innovations." Operations ...

Until recently, Markov models and analytical methods were fairly obscure mathematical techniques rarely applied outside of academic settings. The advent of functional ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation This paper outlines a way to estimate transition matrices for use in credit risk modeling with a decades-old methodology ...

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 ...