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In view of the convergence in variation of an ergodic Markov chain to its stationary distribution, one may consider that the value at a “large” time n of the state is “approximately” distributed according to the stationary distribution.
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Brémaud, P. (2020). Convergence Rates. In: Markov Chains. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45982-6_9
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