Recent and Selected Earlier Papers

1. Stefanov, V. T. and Ball, F. (2009). Reward distributions associated with some block tridiagonal transition matrices with applications to identity-by-descent, Advances in Applied Probability 41, 523-545.


2. Stefanov, V. T. (2009). Occurrence of patterns and motifs in random strings, Chapter 16 in Scan Statistics: Methods and Applications (eds, J. Glaz, V. Pozdnyakov and S. Wallenstein), Birkhauser, Boston.


3. Robin, S. and Stefanov, V. T. (2008) Simultaneous occurrences of runs in independent Markov chains, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 11, 267 - 275 DOI 10.1007/s11009-008-9093-3 (available online July 2008)
   


4. Stefanov, V. T. and Szpankowski, W. (2007). Waiting time distributions for pattern occurrence in a constrained sequence, Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 9, 305-320.
   


5. Stefanov, V. T., Robin, S. and Schbath, S. (2007). Waiting times for clumps of patterns and for structured motifs in random sequences, Discrete Applied Mathematics 155 (Computational Molecular Biology Series - Issue V), 868-880.
   


6. Stefanov, V. T. (2006). Exact distributions for reward functions on semi-Markov and Markov-additive processes, Journal of Applied Probability 43, 1053-1065.
   


7. Ball, F. and Stefanov, V. T. (2005). Evaluation of identity-by-descent probabilities for half-sibs on continuous genome, Mathematical Biosciences 196, 215-225.
   


8. Stefanov, V. T. (2004). Distribution of the amount of genetic material, from a chromosomal segment, surviving to the following generation, Journal of Applied Probability 41, 345-354.
   


9. Stefanov, V. T. (2003). The intersite distances between pattern occurrences in strings generated by general discrete- and continuous-time models: an algorithmic approach, Journal of Applied Probability 40, 881-892.


10. Crochemore, M. and Stefanov, V. T. (2003). Waiting time and complexity for matching patterns with automata, Information Processing Letters 87, 119-125.


11. Pollett, P. K. and Stefanov, V. T. (2002). Path integrals for continuous-time Markov chains, Journal of Applied Probability 39, 901-904.


12. Naus, J. and Stefanov, V. T. (2002). Double-scan statistics, Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability 4, 163-180.


13. Stefanov, V. T. (2002). Statistics on Continuous IBD Data: Exact distribution evaluation for a pair of full(half)-sibs and a pair of a (great-)grandchild with a (great-)grandparent, BMC Genetics 3:7.


14. Ball, F. and Stefanov, V. T. (2001). Further approaches to computing fundamental characteristics of birth-death processes, Journal of Applied Probability 38, 995-1005.


15. Stefanov, V. T. and Wang, S. (2000). A note on integrals for birth-death processes, Mathematical Biosciences 168, 161-165.


16. Stefanov, V. T. (2000). Distribution of genome shared identical by descent by two individuals in grandparent-type relationship, Genetics 156, 1403-1410.


17. Stefanov, V. T. (2000). On some waiting time problems, Journal of Applied Probability 37, 756-764.
18. Stefanov, V. T. (2000). On run statistics for binary trials, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 87, 177-185.


19. Stefanov, V. T. (1999). Markov renewal processes and exponential families, Chapter 9 in Semi-Markov Models and Applications (eds, J. Janssen and N. Limnios), Kluwer, Dordrecht.


20. Stefanov, V. T. (1999). On the occurrence of composite events and clusters of points, Journal of Applied Probability 36, 1012-1018.


21. Stefanov, V. T. and Pakes, A. G. (1999). Explicit distributional results in pattern formation II, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 41, 79-90.


22. Stefanov, V. T. and Yeo, G. F. (1997). Explicit asymptotic results for open times in ion channel models, Advances in Applied Probability 29, 947-964.


23. Stefanov, V. T. and Pakes, A. G. (1997). Explicit distributional results in pattern formation, Annals of Applied Probability 7, 666-678.


24. Stefanov, V. T. (1995). Explicit limit results for minimal sufficient statistics and maximum likelihood estimators in some Markov processes; exponential families approach, Annals of Statistics 23, 1073-1101.


25. Stefanov, V. T. (1995). Mean passage times for tridiagonal transition matrices, Journal of Applied Probability 32, 846-849.


26. Stefanov, V. T. (1995). On efficient sequential estimation for the simple single server queue, Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 9, 55-65.


27. Stefanov, V. T. (1991). Noncurved exponential families associated with observations over finite-state Markov chains, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 18, 353-356.


28. Stefanov, V. T. (1991). A note on the moments of first-crossing times related to nonlinear renewal theory, Stochastics 35, 25-30.


29. Stefanov, V. T. (1990). A note on the attainment of the Cramer-Rao bound in the sequential case, Sequential Analysis 9, 327-334.


30. Magiera, R. and Stefanov, V. T. (1989). Sequential estimation in exponential type processes under random initial conditions, Sequential Analysis 8, 147-167.


31. Stefanov, V. T. (1988). On some stopping times for dependent Bernoulli trials, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 15, 39-50.


32. Stefanov, V. T. (1986). On the moments of some first passage times and the associated processes, Stochastics 19, 207-220.


33. Stefanov, V. T. (1986). Efficient sequential estimation in exponential type processes, Annals of Statistics 14, 1606-1611.


34. Stefanov, V. T. (1985). On the moments of some first passage times, Journal of Applied Probability 22, 461-466.


35. Stefanov, V. T. (1985). On efficient stopping times, Stochastic Processes and Their Applications 19, 305-314.


36. Stefanov, V. T. (1984). Efficient sequential estimation in finite-state Markov processes, Stochastics 11, 291-300.


37. Stefanov, V. T. (1982). Sequential estimation for compound Poisson process I and II, Serdica 8, 183-189 and 255-261.