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Ergodicity and Central Limit Theorems for Markov Processes

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Rabi N. Bhattacharya

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There are several contexts in the theory of Markov processes in which the term ergodicity is used, but in all of these, assertions of the form

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This research was supported in part by NSF grant DMS 11-06424.

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    Thomas G. Kurtz

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Kurtz, T.G. (2016). Ergodicity and Central Limit Theorems for Markov Processes. In: Denker, M., Waymire, E. (eds) Rabi N. Bhattacharya. Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30190-7_6

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