R: Mean absorption time

meanAbsorptionTime {markovchain} | R Documentation

## Mean absorption time

### Description

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

### Author(s)

Ignacio Cordón

### 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)

[Package markovchain version 0.8.6 Index]