markovchain (version 0.0.9.5)

transitionProbability: Function to get the transition probabilities from initial to subsequent status.

Description

This is a convenience function to get transition probabilities.

Usage

transitionProbability(object,t0,t1)

Arguments

object

A markovchain object.

t0

Initial state.

t1

Subsequent state.

Value

• A matrix

References

A First Course in Probability (8th Edition), Sheldon Ross, Prentice Hall 2010

See Also

markovchain

Examples

#define a markov chain
statesNames=c("a","b","c")
markovB<-new("markovchain", states=statesNames, transitionMatrix=
          matrix(c(0.2,0.5,0.3,
                   0,1,0,
                   0.1,0.8,0.1),nrow=3, byrow=TRUE, dimnames=list(statesNames,statesNames)
                 ))
transitionProbability(markovB,"b", "c")