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Q178Section III (Statistics)178 of 190

A symmetric walk reflected at 0 is null recurrent

Consider a Markov chain on S={0,1,2,… }S=\{0,1,2,\dots\}. The transition probabilities are given by p00=12p_{00}=\tfrac12, p01=12p_{01}=\tfrac12 and for i≥1i\ge1, pi,i−1=12p_{i,i-1}=\tfrac12, pi,i+1=12p_{i,i+1}=\tfrac12. Then:

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