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ON IDENTITIES FOR A RANDOM WALK IN AN ORTHANT WITH ABSORBING BOUNDARY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 June 2003
Abstract
For a left-continuous random walk in an orthant with absorbing boundary, the generating function of the transition probabilities is determined by a well-known functional equation. We give a simple probabilistic derivation of this functional equation, which simultaneously proves the hitting point identity and Wald's exponential identity for the absorption time.
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- Research Article
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- Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 411 - 415
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- © 2003 Cambridge University Press