(apologies for the cross-posting, and for this being a more general
stats question rather than a specific-to-R one. I assure you I will be
doing the actual analysis in R :)
I am trying to determine the distribution and variance for a classic
stochastic (transition) matrix problem such that:
let x(t) be an initial state vector consisting of counts of classes A, B
and C:
x(t) = [A(t),B(t),C(t)]
T is the stochastic (transition) matrix for these classes consisting of
the transition probabilities between each combination of A,B and C:
pAA pBA pCA
T= pAB pBB pCB
pAC pBC pCC
By doing matrix multiplication of Tx(t) we can determine the *mean*
counts of these classes at t+1 such that:
x mean (t+1) = Tx(t) = [A mean (t+1),B mean (t+1),C mean (t+1)]
What I want to know is what is a) what is the *distribution* of
A(t+1),B(t+1) and C(t+1), and what is the variance around these mean
values? Since pXY are stochastic probabilities, it seems that the
distribution and variance should be calculable.
Thanks!
--j
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