Author:
Rubino Gerardo,Sericola Bruno
Abstract
Sojourn times of Markov processes in subsets of the finite state space are considered. We give a closed form of the distribution of the nth sojourn time in a given subset of states. The asymptotic behaviour of this distribution when time goes to infinity is analyzed, in the discrete time and the continuous-time cases. We consider the usually pseudo-aggregated Markov process canonically constructed from the previous one by collapsing the states of each subset of a given partition. The relation between limits of moments of the sojourn time distributions in the original Markov process and the moments of the corresponding holding times of the pseudo-aggregated one is also studied.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,General Mathematics,Statistics and Probability
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