Accession Number:
ADA010087
Title:
The Distribution of Sojourn Times in Finite Absorbing Markov Chains.
Descriptive Note:
Technical summary rept.,
Corporate Author:
WISCONSIN UNIV MADISON MATHEMATICS RESEARCH CENTER
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Report Date:
1975-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
9.0
Abstract:
The distribution of the time spent before absorption in various states of finite Markov chains with time-independent transition probabilities is derived. All the moments of this distribution are calculated. The problem is of interest in population genetics.
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Subject Categories:
- Biology
- Statistics and Probability