Marin, Juan Miguel; Pla, Lluis; Rios-Insua, David - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 32 (2005) 8, pp. 797-812
Sow farm management requires appropriate methods to forecast the sow population structure evolution. We describe two models for such purpose. The first is a semi-Markov process model, used for long-term predictions and strategic management. The second is a state-space model for continuous...