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- From: atteson@grip.cis.upenn.edu (Kevin Atteson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: exponential bounds for Markov chains, etc.
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:13:02 GMT
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- I'm interested in the speed of convergence of frequencies to probabilities
- for Markov chains and possibly more general random processes.
- Any general information concerning this subject would be apprecaited
- but also I have the following specific question.
- In the 2nd edition of the book "Probability and Random Processes" by
- Grimmett and Stirzaker, at about the middle of page 452, they say
- of Markov chains,
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- "The convergence is rather fast, as the following
- (somewhat overcomplicated) argument indicates...skip about a page...
- Similar inequalities may be established by other means,
- more elementary than those used above."
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- I'd like to hear about these more elementary means. Does
- anyone know what they are referring to or how I can contact
- the authors?
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- Please reply directly to me.
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