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skelly83

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Registered: 2007-10-08

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Need Urgent help for Markov Process!!

I need help with this troubling question....please~~~
Suppose there are 3 candidates, X,Y, n' Z, for the mayoralty of a town. Each week during the election campaign, candidate X loses 10% of their support to candidate Y, n' keeps the rest. Similarly each week candidate Y loses 30% of their support to candidate Z, n' keeps the rest. Similarly each week candidate Z loses 20% of their support to candidate X, n' keeps the rest. Initially support for candidates X,Y, n' Z is in the ratio of 20:20:60.
(q) Explain why this situation meets the requirements for a Markov process n' find the transition matrix A, as well as the initial state vector v0 for this Markov process.

George,Y

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Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Re: Need Urgent help for Markov Process!!

who is n'?

It surely meets, every new set(vector) of data is a linear combination of the previous one.

v0= [20 20 60]'

or=
20
20
60

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X'(y-Xβ)=0