A vector of length n containing a realisation of the specified Markov chain.
Arguments
n
the length of the sample path to simulate.
trans.mat
The transition matrix of the Markov chain to simulate.
init.dist
The initial distribution to use for starting the simulation. If it is not
specified, the stationary distribution of the Markov chain will be computed from
trans.mat and used to start the simulation in the steady state.
states
This argument can be used to override the labels on the transition matrix (if any) and name the states output on the sample path.
Author
Andrew Hart and Servet Martínez
Details
trans.mat must be a stochastic matrix. It must either have both row and
column names, in which case they must agree, or no row and column names at all.
The row/column names will be used to label the states visited by the Markov
chain in the sample path simulated. If states is specified, it will be
used to label the states of the Markov chain instead of the row/column names of
trans.mat, in which the length of states must agree with the
dimension of trans.mat. If trans.mat has no row/column names and
states is not specified, then the states of the Markov chain will be
labelled \(1,\ldots,n\), where \(n\) is the dimension of trans.mat.