ON COMPLETENESS OF RANDOM TRANSITION COUNTS FOR
MARKOV CHAINS. II
Abstract: It is shown that the random transition count is complete for Markov chains with a fixed
length and a fixed initial state, for some subsets of the set of all transition probabilities. The
main idea is to apply graph theory to prove completeness in a more general case than in
Palma [5].
2000 AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 62B05.
Keywords and phrases: Markov chain, random transition count, minimal sufficient
statistic, complete statistic.