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Mean passage times for tridiagonal transition matrices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Valeri T. Stefanov*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6001, Australia
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Abstract

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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1995 

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