Harper, P.R.; Knight, V.A.; Marshall, A.H. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 219 (2012) 3, pp. 522-530
Discrete Conditional Phase-type models (DC-Ph) consist of a process component (survival distribution) preceded by a set of related conditional discrete variables. This paper introduces a DC-Ph model where the conditional component is a classification tree. The approach is utilised for modelling...