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Markov Models in Medical Decision Making
322 Markov Models in Medical Decision Making: A Practical Guide FRANK A. SONNENBERG, MD, J. ROBERT BECK, MD Markov models are useful when a decision problem involves risk that is continuous over time, when the timing of events is important, and when important events may happen more than once.Representing such clinical settings with conventional decision …
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