This paper contributes to the understanding of the persistently high poverty rates in rural Madagascar. It tests the existence of poverty traps thanks to a Markovian poverty transition model where past poverty is allowed to have either a slope or an intercept effect on the current poverty risk....

The investment decisions and profitability of airlines encompasses elements such as air traffic forecasting, the cycles of orders and deliveries, profit cycles, airline growth and survivability in Asia. Regression analysis showed that air traffic growth rates are positively associated with GDP...

It is known that the robit regression model for binary data is a robust alternative to the more popular probit and logistic models. The robit model is obtained by replacing the normal distribution in the probit regression model with the Student’s t distribution. Unlike the probit and logistic...

Spectral properties of 1D systems with long-range correlated disorder and their response to an applied field are examined. An algorithm based on the additive multi-step Markov chains is used to analyze and synthesize layered systems consisting of two randomly alternated elements. Using an...

We consider a Markov chain model for population growth subject to rare catastrophic events. In this model, the moves of the process are getting algebraically rare (as from x−λ) when the process visits large heights x, and given a move occurs and the height is large, the chain grows by one...

We present a site-percolation model based on a modified FCC lattice, as well as an efficient algorithm of inspecting percolation which takes advantage of the Markov stochastic theory, in order to study the percolation threshold of carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers. Our Markov-chain based algorithm...

By using the discrete Markov chain method, Parrondo’s paradox is studied by means of theoretical analysis and computer simulation, built on the case of game AB played in alternation with modulus M=4. We find that such a case does not have a definite stationary probability distribution and that...

The major objective of this paper is to study the fault tolerance of gene networks. For single gene knockouts we investigate the disturbance of the communication abilities of gene networks globally. For our study we use directed scale-free networks resembling important properties of gene...

Based on the original Parrondo’s game and on the case where game A and game B are played randomly with modulo M=4, the processes of the game are divided into odd and even numbered plays, where the probability of playing game A in odd numbers is γ1 and the probability of playing game A in even...

We introduce the Stochastic Fluid–Fluid Model, which offers powerful modeling ability for a wide range of real-life systems of significance. We first derive the infinitesimal generator, with respect to time, of the driving stochastic fluid model. We then use this to derive the infinitesimal...