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Q120Section III (Statistics)120 of 180

Doubly stochastic matrices — solving for a missing entry

Suppose {Xn,n≥0}\{X_n,n\ge0\} is a Markov chain with state space S={1,2,3}S=\{1,2,3\} and the transition probability matrix P given by

P=(0.3αβ0.4γ0.1δ0.2ε).P=\begin{pmatrix}0.3&\alpha&\beta\\0.4&\gamma&0.1\\\delta&0.2&\varepsilon\end{pmatrix}.

If P is a doubly stochastic matrix, the value of β\beta:

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