TY - JOUR AU - Crescenzo, Antonio di AU - Gómez Corral, Antonio AU - Taipe Hidalgo, Diana Paulina PY - 2024 DO - 10.1016/j.matcom.2024.08.019 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108004 T2 - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation AB - This paper analyzes the dynamics of a level-dependent quasi-birth-death process X = {(I(t), J(t)) : t ≥ 0}, i.e., a bi-variate Markov chain defined on the countable state space ∪∞ i=0l(i) with l(i) = {(i, j) : j ∈ {0, ..., Mi}}, for integers Mi ∈ N0... LA - eng M2 - 211 PB - Elsevier KW - Epidemic model KW - First-passage time KW - Hitting probability KW - Quasi-birth-death process TI - A computational approach to extreme values and related hitting probabililties in level-dependent quasi-birth-death processes TY - journal article VL - 228 ER -