MARKOV PROCESS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

Synonyms:

Markoff process; Markov process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("Markov process" is a kind of...):

stochastic process (a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Markov process"):

Markoff chain; Markov chain (a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values)

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