markovchain (version 0.0.9.5)

is.irreducible: Function to check if a Markov chain is irreducible

Description

This function verifies whether a markovchain object transition matrix is composed by only one communicating class.

Usage

is.irreducible(object)

Arguments

object

A markovchain object

Value

• A boolean values.

Details

It is based on .communicatingClasses internal function.

References

Feres, Matlab listings for Markov Chains.

See Also

summary

Examples

statesNames=c("a","b")
mcA<-new("markovchain", transitionMatrix=matrix(c(0.7,0.3,0.1,0.9),byrow=TRUE, nrow=2, 
                                                  dimnames=list(statesNames,statesNames)
                                                  ))
is.irreducible(mcA)