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<h4 number="16.3.3.1"><span class="header-section-number">16.3.3.1</span> Asymptotics and transience vs. equilibrium</h4>
<p>Markov chain convergence is a global property in the sense that it
does not depend on the choice of function of the parameters that is
monitored. There is no hard cutoff between pre-convergence
“transience” and post-convergence “equilibrium.” What happens is
that as the number of states in the chain approaches infinity, the
distribution of possible state