Mean passage times for tridiagonal transition matrices and a two-parameter ehrenfest urn model

DOI10.2307/3214525zbMath0787.60086OpenAlexW2331784887MaRDI QIDQ4280663

Martin Schaefer, Olaf Krafft

Publication date: 19 May 1994

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3214525

zbMATH Keywords

Krawtchouk polynomialsmean passage timestwo-parameter Ehrenfest urn model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Stochastic matrices (15B51)

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