| Article ID: | iaor20052766 |
| Country: | France |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 85 |
| End Page Number: | 97 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2003 |
| Journal: | RAIRO Operations Research |
| Authors: | Dayar Tugrul, Fourneau Jean-Michel, Pekergin Nihal |
We present a transformation for stochastic matrices and analyze the effects of using it in stochastic comparison with the strong stochastic (st) order. We show that unless the given stochastic matrix is row diagonally dominant, the transformed matrix provides better st bounds on the steady state probability distribution.