Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1151370 Statistics & Probability Letters 2015 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present sufficient conditions for two Markov chains to be similar, thus confirming a conjecture of Pollett (2001). Our proof technique also shows one of the sufficient conditions given in Theorem 2 of Lenin et al. (2000) for two birth–death processes to be similar is unnecessary.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Statistics and Probability
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