Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

markovian

/mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: mar-kov-ian
IPA: /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

adj

Alternative letter-case form of Markovian.

Example Sentences

"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 multinomial sampling."
"AR(p) models are simple univariate devices to capture the often-observed Markovian nature of financial and macroeconomic data […]"

Etymology

From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Markov

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/

Derived Forms

Markovianity submarkovian

Phrases

non-Markovian time-homogeneous Markovian type time-independent Markovian type

Questions

How do you pronounce markovian?: The recorded pronunciation is /mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/.
What does markovian mean?: 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.
Where does markovian come from?: From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.

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