A methodology to monitor the changing trends in health status of an elderly person by developing a Markov model

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 2171-2174

  Kaushik, Alka R ^a   Celler, B G ^a   Ambikairajah, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTORS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

HEALTH STATUS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33846901429     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1616892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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