markovian
US/mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/
markovian is the alternative letter-case form of Markovian.
Adjective capitalized: Markovian
Markovian (not comparable)
- Exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states.
- It is not immediately obvious that a random variable with distribution f(x) can be produced by the Gibbs sequence of (2.3) or that the sequence even converges. That this is so relies on the Markovian nature of the iterations, which we now develop in detail for the simple case of a 2 × 2 table with...1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174
- AR(p) models are simple univariate devices to capture the often-observed Markovian nature of financial and macroeconomic data […]2018, Guidolin and Pedio, Essentials of Time Series for Financial Applications, Academic Press
Origin of markovian
From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.
Words formed from markovian
- Markovianity
- non-Markovian
- submarkovian
- time-homogeneous Markovian type
- time-independent Markovian type
Questions about markovian
- What does markovian mean?
- Markovian means exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states.
- What is markovian the alternative letter-case form of?
- Markovian is the alternative letter-case form of Markovian.
- What part of speech is markovian?
- Markovian is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce markovian?
- Markovian is pronounced /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/ (US).
Words near markovian in the dictionary
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