R: Mean num of visits for markovchain, starting at each state

meanNumVisits {markovchain} | R Documentation

## Mean num of visits for markovchain, starting at each state

### Description

Given a markovchain object, this function calculates a matrix where the element (i, j) represents the expect number of visits to the state j if the chain starts at i (in a Markov chain by columns it would be the element (j, i) instead)

### Usage

    meanNumVisits(object)

### Arguments

`object` | the markovchain-class object

### Value

a matrix with the expect number of visits to each state

### Author(s)

Ignacio Cordón

### References

R. Vélez, T. Prieto, Procesos Estocásticos, Librería UNED, 2013

### Examples

    M <- matlab::zeros(5, 5)
    M[1,1] <- M[5,5] <- 1
    M[2,1] <- M[2,3] <- 1/2
    M[3,2] <- M[3,4] <- 1/2
    M[4,2] <- M[4,5] <- 1/2

    mc <- new("markovchain", transitionMatrix = M)
    meanNumVisits(mc)

[Package markovchain version 0.8.6 Index]