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MARKOFF PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Markoff process mean? 

MARKOFF PROCESS (noun)
  The noun MARKOFF PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. 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 stateplay

  Familiarity information: MARKOFF PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.


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MARKOFF PROCESS (noun)


Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

Markoff process; Markov process

Hypernyms ("Markoff 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 "Markoff process"):

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


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