Abstract

The time to absorption from the setTof transient states of a Markov chain may be sufficiently long for the probability distribution overTto settle down in some sense to a “quasi-stationary” distribution. Various analogues of the stationary distribution of an irreducible chain are suggested and compared. The reverse process of an absorbing chain is found to be relevant.

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