Papers published in 1972-1985 submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Science

Abstract

The research summarised here and presented for the degree of Doctor of Science falls into two broad areas. Many of the papers presented are devoted to an understanding of the structure of stochastic processes, and in particular to the structure of Markov chains and processes. A further group of papers is devoted to the use of stochastic processes in a variety of applications, ranging from the relatively theoretical (such as application of Markov processes in queueing models) to the very practical (such as the description of cattle movements or Polynesian populations using Markov chain models). Show more