markovchain (version 0.4.4)

verifyMarkovProperty: Various functions to perform statistical inference of DTMC

Description

These functions verify the Markov property, assess the order and stationarity of the Markov chain.

Usage

verifyMarkovProperty(sequence, ...)
assessOrder(sequence)
assessStationarity(sequence, nblocks)
divergenceTest(sequence, hypothetic)

Arguments

sequence

An empirical sequence.

...

Parameters for chi-square test.

hypothetic

A transition matrix for a hypothetic markov chain sequence.

nblocks

Number of blocks.

Value

• Verification result

References

Monika, Anderson and Goodman.

See Also

markovchain

Examples

sequence<-c("a", "b", "a", "a", "a", "a", "b", "a", "b", "a", "b", "a", "a", "b", "b", "b", "a")
mcFit<-markovchainFit(data=sequence,byrow=FALSE)
verifyMarkovProperty(sequence)
assessOrder(sequence)
assessStationarity(sequence,1)
divergenceTest(sequence, mcFit$estimate@transitionMatrix)