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| | SCOPE 34 - Practitioner's Handbook on the Modelling of Dynamic Change in Ecosystems, Chapter 6, Markov Models and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | A Russian mathematician, Markov, who lived early in the 20th century defined one such class of processes, in which the probability of the process being in a given state at a particular time is related to the immediately preceding state of that process. |
 | | A Markov chain is, therefore, a sequence or chain of discrete states in time or space with fixed probabilities for the transition from one state to a given state in the next step in the chain. |
 | | In the Markov model a random component is present, so that the state of the system at any point of time or space is not wholly dependent on the previous event or events, but there is, nevertheless, a structure of successive events which defines the process. |
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