This function verifies if a state is reachable from another, i.e., if there exists a path that leads to state j leaving from state i with positive probability

is.accessible(object, from, to)

Arguments

object

A markovchain object.

from

The name of state "i" (beginning state).

to

The name of state "j" (ending state).

Value

A boolean value.

Details

It wraps an internal function named reachabilityMatrix.

References

James Montgomery, University of Madison

See also

is.irreducible

Author

Giorgio Spedicato, Ignacio Cordón

Examples

statesNames <- c("a", "b", "c") markovB <- new("markovchain", states = statesNames, transitionMatrix = matrix(c(0.2, 0.5, 0.3, 0, 1, 0, 0.1, 0.8, 0.1), nrow = 3, byrow = TRUE, dimnames = list(statesNames, statesNames) ) ) is.accessible(markovB, "a", "c")
#> [1] TRUE