Stochastic Models and Methods with Applications

Dear Colleagues,

It is commonly recognized nowadays that stochastic approaches are increasingly important in most of the fields of applied or theoretical sciences, such as biology, genetics, medicine, survival analysis, finance and insurance, economics, reliability, quality control, engineering, environmental studies, climatology, seismology, etc. In all these fields we often have stochastic models and methods used in parallel with their deterministic analogous. On the one hand, in many cases we have phenomena that are intrinsically random, at least partially. On the other hand, when using various deterministic models, there is the need to render them adaptable to practical situations by adding some stochastic behavior. For instance, this could be a/several coefficient/s that are considered to be random, an extra random term added in a deterministic equation, etc. 

The purpose of this Special Issue is to propose to the scientific community a collection of articles on the latest developments of stochastic models and methods in different fields. Both theoretical and applied contributions are welcome. A special attention will be paid to the following directions, but contributions on different stochastic topics are welcome:

• Use of various types of stochastic processes, corresponding modelling techniques, associated estimation problems
• Statistical estimation of parameters, developing of new corresponding methods
• Reliability indicators for multi-state systems, taking into account the time non-homogeneity
• Time series studies, extremal events, measures of serial dependence, measures of similarity of two time series
• Measures of divergence and entropy

Dr. Vlad Stefan Barbu
Guest Editors

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