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Mean transition times for the Ehrenfest urn model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Gunnar Blom
Gunnar Blom*
Affiliation:
University of Lund
*
∗Postal address: Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Lund, Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract

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For an Ehrenfest urn model, the mean transition time from one state to another is represented as a definite integral. Simple explicit expressions are given in some special cases.

Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 479 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

References

Matsoms, P. (1988) Hoppande loss. Elementa 71, 95–99. (in Swedish).Google Scholar