Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 988-1005 (18 pages) This paper studies the absorption time of an integer-valued Markov chain with a lower-triangular transition matrix ...
The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...