Abstract
Consider a discrete time Markov chain {Zn} whose state space is the non-negative integers and whose transition probability matrix ║Pij║ possesses the representation where {Pr}, r = 1,2,…, is a finite or denumerably infinite sequence of non-negative real numbers satisfying , and , is a corresponding sequence of probability generating functions. It is assumed that Z0 = k, a finite positive integer.

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