Minimal quasi-stationary distributions under null R-recurrence

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Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 455-470

  Moler, José A ^a   Plo, Fernando ^b   San Miguel, Miguel ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absorbing Markov Chain; Quasi stationary distribution; R null matrix; R recurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347486585     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02595745     Document Type: Article

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