| Article ID: | iaor20002955 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 593 |
| End Page Number: | 597 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Journal: | Communications in Statistics - Stochastic Models |
| Authors: | Baron Michael, Rukhin Andrew L. |
| Keywords: | random walk |
The distribution of the number of visits to a given state within an excursion of a simple random walk is derived. This distribution is shown to be a zero-modified geometric law, which extends a result of Révész.