On a class of linear models.
This paper is concerned with classification criteria, asymptotic behaviour and stationarity of a non-Markovian model with linear transition rule, called a linear OM-chain. This problems are solved by making use of the structure of the stochastic matrix appearing in the definition of such a model. The model studied includes as special cases the Markovian model as well as the linear learning model, and has applications in psychological and biological research, in control theory, and in adaptation...