On determining absorption probabilities for Markov chains in random environments

DOI10.2307/1426689zbMath0461.60083OpenAlexW2325636260MaRDI QIDQ3911175

Richard D. Bourgin, Robert Cogburn

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1426689

zbMATH Keywords

queueingMarkov chainsrandom environmentsbranchingextinction probabilitiesbirth and deathMarkovian environmentsbichain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Queueing theory (aspects of probability theory) (60K25) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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