Distributions of Patterns with Applications in Engineering

In the present paper we deal with two difierent problems concerning engineering, the mov- ing window detection problem and weaning from me- chanical ventilation. We review the research on these two areas and contribute to it by studying waiting time distributions of patterns of two successes sepa- rated by at most or exactly k i 2 failures (k ‚ 3) in the case of flrst-order dependent trials.