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Markov process

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Or Markoff process

noun

Statistics.

  1. a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.

Etymology

Origin of Markov process

1935–40; after Russian mathematician Andreĭ Andreevich Markov (1856–1922), who developed it

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