A Dynamic Analysis for inter-regional migratory movements in Spain (1986-2001) based on the MCC Method
Markov chains are a powerful statistical tool to study temporal and
spatial dynamic of mobility. However, its original formulation is far from reality due
to its fundamental hypothesis. This paper is aimed to present some methods that relax
one of these hypotheses: temporal homogeneity. We will pay special attention to one
useful technique in dynamic-spatial analysis that hardly attention has received by stochastic literature, called constant matrix method. This method will be developed in
this paper in order to capture the differential effect of intra-regional migrations in
Spain in the interpretation of models results.
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