(1) Institute of Mineral Deposits, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Baiwanzhuang Road, Beijing, China;(2) Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, 60201 Evanston, Illinois, USA
Abstract:
This paper introduces the concept of quasi-independence into embedded Markov chains and identifies the maximum likelihood frequency estimates to be used with 2tests of the null hypothesis of quasi-independence within an embedded Markov chain.