Transition probability between two states

Returns the one-step probability of moving from state t0 to state t1.

Usage

transitionProbability(object, t0, t1)

# S4 method for class 'markovchain'
transitionProbability(object, t0, t1)

Arguments

object

A markovchain object.

t0

Name of the current state.

t1

Name of the next state.

Value

A number, the transition probability.

See also

conditionalDistribution() for the whole distribution of the next state.

markovchain

Author

Giorgio Spedicato

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)),
               name = "A markovchain Object" 
)    
transitionProbability(markovB,"b", "c")
#> [1] 0