When is Eaton's Markov chain irreducible?

DOI10.3150/07-BEJ6191zbMath1131.60066arXiv0709.0448MaRDI QIDQ2469645

James P. Hobert, Ruitao Liu, Aixin Tan

Publication date: 6 February 2008

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0448

zbMATH Keywords

reversible Markov chain; improper prior distribution; strong admissibility; local recurrence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60J05: Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces

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