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Convergence of quasi-stationary to stationary distributions for stochastically monotone Markov processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Moshe Pollak  and
David Siegmund
Moshe Pollak*
Affiliation:
Hebrew University
David Siegmund*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
*
∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
∗∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Sequoia Hall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Abstract

It is shown that if a stochastically monotone Markov process on [0,∞) with stationary distribution H has its state space truncated by making all states in [B,∞) absorbing, then the quasi-stationary distribution of the new process converges to H as B →∞.

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WEAK CONVERGENCE
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Short Communications
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 215 - 220
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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Footnotes

Research supported in part by the Office of Naval Research and the U.S.– Israel Binational Science Foundation.

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