Markov process
or Markoff process
nounStatistics.
a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.
Origin of Markov process
11935–40; after Russian mathematician Andreĭ Andreevich Markov (1856–1922), who developed it
Words Nearby Markov process
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