markovchain (version 0.6.9)

states: Defined states of a transition matrix

Description

This method returns the states of a transition matrix.

Usage

states(object)
# S4 method for markovchain
states(object)

Arguments

object

A discrete markovchain object

Value

The character vector corresponding to states slot.

References

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

See Also

Examples

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)),
               name = "A markovchain Object" 
)
states(markovB)