Multistate models can be effectively used to characterise the natural history of cancer. Inference from such models has previously been useful for setting screening policies. We introduce the basic ...

Sleep posture, closely related to sleep quality, has become a crucial focus in sleep medicine. Studies associate the supine posture with increased risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), while a ...

Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete—roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly and continuously. So they often model the ...

Physicists have shown that Markov processes, widely used to model complex systems, must unfold over a larger space than previously assumed. Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete -- ...