Statistical models called hidden Markov models are a recurring theme in computational biology. What are hidden Markov models, and why are they so useful for so many different problems?

Medical researchers interested in temporal, multivariate measurements of complex diseases have recently begun developing health state models, which divide the space of patient characteristics into ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 58, No. 3 (Jul., 2009), pp. 405-426 (22 pages) A new hidden Markov model for the space-time evolution of daily rainfall is ...

C. Bracken, B. Rajagopalan, & E. Zagona (2014). “A Hidden Markov Model Combined with Climate Indices for Multi-decadal Streamflow Simulation,” Water Resources Research, 50, 7836-7846. Abstract: ...