A combinatorial approach to calculation of moments of characteristics of runs in ternary Markov sequences

L. Ya Savelyev, S. V. Balakin

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Abstract

We describe the marginal and joint distributions of the numbers of values and the numbers of runs in ternary Markov sequences. A relative simplicity of such sequences permits to derive exact formulas for means, variances, and covariances with the use of direct combinatorial calculations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)47-67
Number of pages21
JournalDiscrete Mathematics and Applications
Volume21
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2011

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