Continuous-time system identification of a smoking cessation intervention
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Continuous-time system identification of a smoking cessation intervention
Cigarette smoking is a major global public health issue and the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Toward a goal of designing better smoking cessation treatments, system identification techniques are applied to intervention data to describe smoking cessation as a process of behavior change. System identification problems that draw from two modeling paradigms in quantitativ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Control
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0020-7179,1366-5820
DOI: 10.1080/00207179.2013.874080