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A note on the geometric ergodicity of a Markov chain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

K. S. Chan
K. S. Chan*
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
*
∗Postal address: Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Abstract

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It is known that if an irreducible and aperiodic Markov chain satisfies a ‘drift' condition in terms of a non-negative measurable function g(x), it is geometrically ergodic. See, e.g. Nummelin (1984), p. 90. We extend the analysis to show that the distance between the nth-step transition probability and the invariant probability measure is bounded above by ρ n(a + bg(x)) for some constants a, b> 0 and ρ < 1. The result is then applied to obtain convergence rates to the invariant probability measures for an autoregressive process and a random walk on a half line.

Keywords

AUTOREGRESSIVE PROCESSDRIFT CONDITIONRANDOM WALK
Type
Letters to the Editor
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 702 - 704
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

References

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