How often does a Harris recurrent Markov chain recur?

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1324-1346

  Chen, Xia ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive functional; Harris recurrence; Invariant measure; Markov chain; Regularity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033164214     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022677449     Document Type: Article

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