TY - JOUR AU - Gómez Corral, Antonio AU - López-García, M. AU - López Herrero, María Jesús AU - Taipe Hidalgo, Diana Paulina PY - 2020 DO - 10.3390/math8101718 SN - 2227-7390 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102080 T2 - Mathematics AB - In this paper, we revisit level-dependent quasi-birth-death processes with finitely many possible values of the level and phase variables by complementing the work of Gaver, Jacobs, and Latouche (Adv. Appl. Probab. 1984), where the emphasis is upon... LA - eng M2 - 1 PB - MDPI KW - Epidemic modeling KW - First-passage times KW - Hitting probabilities KW - Quasi-birth-death processes KW - Sojourn times TI - On first-passage times and sojourn times in finite qbd processes and their applications in epidemics TY - journal article VL - 8 ER -