Consider a Markov chain having state space {0, 1, ..., 6} and transition matrix 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 0 [ 1/2 0 1/8 1/4 1/8 0 0 ] 1 [ 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 ] 2 [ 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 ] 3 [ 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ] 4 [ 0 0 0 0 0 1/2 1/2 ] 5 [ 0 0 0 0 1/2 1/2 0 ] 6 [ 0 0 0 0 0 1/2 1/2 ] (a) Determine which states are transient and which states are recurrent. (b) Find ?0y, y = 0, ..., 6.
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