On Total reward variance for Continous-Time markov Reward Chains

Authors
Publication date 2006
Journal Journal of Applied Probability
Volume | Issue number 43 | 4
Pages (from-to) 1044-1052
Number of pages 9
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract As an extension of the discrete-time case, this note investigates the variance of the total cumulative reward for continuous-time Markov reward chains with finite state spaces. The results correspond to discrete-time results. In particular, the variance growth rate is shown to be asymptotically linear in time. Expressions are provided to compute this growth rate.

Primary Subjects: 90C47
Secondary Subjects: 60J27
Keywords: Continuous-time Markov reward chain; variance of cumulative reward; asymptotic behaviour; uniformization
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1239/jap/1165505206
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