Quasi-stationary distributions in semi-Markov processes
- 1 April 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 7 (02) , 388-399
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200034951
Abstract
Our main concern in this paper is the convergence, as t → ∞, of the quantities i, j ∈ E; where Pij (t) is the transition probability of a semi-Markov process whose state space E is irreducible but not closed (i.e., escape from E is possible), and rj is the probability of eventual escape from E conditional on the initial state being i. The theorems proved here generalize some results of Seneta and Vere-Jones ([8] and [11]) for Markov processes.Keywords
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