Statistics and Probability Letters, vol.78, no.6, pp.785-793, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
In this paper, a semi-Markovian random walk process (X (t)) with a discrete interference of chance is constructed and the ergodicity of this process is discussed. Some exact formulas for the first- and second-order moments of the ergodic distribution of the process X (t) are obtained, when the random variable ζ1 has an exponential distribution with the parameter λ > 0. Here ζ1 expresses the quantity of a discrete interference of chance. Based on these results, the third-order asymptotic expansions for mathematical expectation and variance of the ergodic distribution of the process X (t) are derived, when λ → 0. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.