is.irreducible {markovchain} | R Documentation |
Function to check if a Markov chain is irreducible (i.e. ergodic)
Description
This function verifies whether a markovchain
object transition matrix
is composed by only one communicating class.
Usage
is.irreducible(object)
Arguments
object |
A |
Details
It is based on .communicatingClasses
internal function.
Value
A boolean values.
Author(s)
Giorgio Spedicato
References
Feres, Matlab listings for Markov Chains.
See Also
Examples
statesNames <- c("a", "b")
mcA <- new("markovchain", transitionMatrix = matrix(c(0.7,0.3,0.1,0.9),
byrow = TRUE, nrow = 2,
dimnames = list(statesNames, statesNames)
))
is.irreducible(mcA)
[Package markovchain version 0.9.5 Index]