Zhou, Yifan; Ma, Lin; Mathew, Joseph; Sun, Yong; Wolff, … - 2011
-making largely adopt the discrete time and state assumptions. The discrete-time assumption requires the health state transitions and … maintenance activities only happen at discrete epochs, which cannot model the failure time accurately and is not cost …-effective. The discrete health state assumption, on the other hand, may not be elaborate enough to improve the effectiveness of …