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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2008 S 2 c Solution by
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A finite irreducible aperiodic Markov chain converges to its unique stationary distribution from every initial state. Finiteness holds because nonnegative entries with fixed finite row sums are bounded. The given connecting-sequence property makes the chain irreducible: each feasible step in such a sequence has positive proposal probability and is accepted. The all-zero index table occurs with probability and gives a self-loop at every state, establishing aperiodicity. Reversibility supplied the stationary uniform law in (b). ConsequentlyThe conclusion also holds when the feasible state space is a singleton.
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