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semi-markov process

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
semi--markov pro-cess
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A generalization of the Markov chain in which the distribution of the amount of time that the process spends in a given state is permitted to be nonexponentially (generally) distributed.

Etymology

Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes.

Inflected Forms

semi-Markov processes (plural)

Questions

What does semi-markov process mean?
A generalization of the Markov chain in which the distribution of the amount of time that the process spends in a given state is permitted to be nonexponentially (generally) distributed.
Where does semi-markov process come from?
Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes.

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