The number of iterations required to estimate accurately the stationary distribution of a Markov chain is determined by a preliminary sample to estimate the convergence rate, which is related to the ...

Richard D. Gill, On Estimating Transition Intensities of a Markov Process with Aggregate Data of a Certain Type: "Occurrences but No Exposures", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 13, No. 2 ...