Consider the three competing grocery stores in town, ABC Grocery, 123 Grocery and XYZ Grocery. Consider the transition probabilities                                                        TO   From  abc grocery 123 grocery  xyz grocery  ABC grocery 0.65 0.15 0.2 123 GROCERY 0.15 0.80 0.05 xyz grocery 0.10 0.15 0.75 a. Compute the steady-state probabilities for this three-state Markov process. b. What market share will each store obtain

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Consider the three competing grocery stores in town, ABC Grocery, 123 Grocery and XYZ Grocery. Consider the transition probabilities

                                                       TO

 

From  abc grocery 123 grocery  xyz grocery 

ABC grocery

0.65 0.15 0.2
123 GROCERY 0.15 0.80 0.05
xyz grocery 0.10 0.15 0.75

a. Compute the steady-state probabilities for this three-state Markov process.
b. What market share will each store obtain?

 

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