We present a new fundamental intuition forwhy the Kemeny feature of a Markov chain is a constant. This new perspective has interesting further implications.
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author = {Karl Gustafson and Jeffrey J. Hunter},
title = {Why the Kemeny Time is a constant},
journal = {Special Matrices},
volume = {4},
year = {2016},
pages = {176-180},
zbl = {1334.60142},
language = {en},
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Karl Gustafson; Jeffrey J. Hunter. Why the Kemeny Time is a constant. Special Matrices, Tome 4 (2016) pp. 176-180. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.doi-10_1515_spma-2016-0016/
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