Computes the expected number of steps to go from any of the
transient states to any of the recurrent states. The Markov chain should
have at least one transient state for this method to work
Usage
meanAbsorptionTime(object)
Arguments
- object
the markovchain object
Value
A named vector with the expected number of steps to go from a
transient state to any of the recurrent ones
References
C. M. Grinstead and J. L. Snell. Introduction to Probability.
American Mathematical Soc., 2012.
Examples
m <- matrix(c(1/2, 1/2, 0,
1/2, 1/2, 0,
0, 1/2, 1/2), ncol = 3, byrow = TRUE)
mc <- new("markovchain", states = letters[1:3], transitionMatrix = m)
times <- meanAbsorptionTime(mc)