TY - JOUR SN - 0001-8678 Y1 - 2013/12// N2 - We consider a random trial-based telegraph process, which describes a motion on the real line with two constant velocities along opposite directions. At each epoch of the underlying counting process the new velocity is determined by the outcome of a random trial. Two schemes are taken into account: Bernoulli trials and classical Pòlya urn trials. We investigate the probability law of the process and the mean of the velocity of the moving particle. We finally discuss two cases of interest: (i) the case of Bernoulli trials and intertimes having exponential distributions with linear rates (in which, interestingly, the process exhibits a logistic stationary density with non-zero mean), and (ii) the case of Pòlya trials and intertimes having first Gamma and then exponential distributions with constant rates. JF - Advances in applied probability VL - 45 PB - Applied Probability Trust EP - 1136 A1 - Crimaldi, Irene A1 - Di Crescenzo, Antonio A1 - Iuliano, Antonella A1 - Martinucci, Barbara SP - 1111 ID - eprints2084 TI - A generalized telegraph process with velocity driven by random trials AV - none KW - telegraph process KW - random intertimes KW - random velocities KW - Bernoulli scheme KW - Pòlya urn model UR - http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?verb=Display&version=1.0&service=UI&handle=euclid.aap/1386857860&page=record IS - 4 ER -