Estimation of the stationary distribution of semi-Markov processes with Borel state space

We present an empirical estimator of the stationary distribution of continuous time semi-Markov processes with Borel state space. It comes as a particular case of an estimator of a linear functional of the stationary distribution. We give asymptotic results for strong consistency, and the weak and strong invariance principles.

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