A note on expected hitting times for birth and death chains

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-125

  Palacios, José Luis ^a   Tetali, Prasad ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death chains; Effective resistance; Ehrenfest urn

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030587992     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00209-X     Document Type: Article

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