MARKOV PROCESS

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Markov process mean? 

• MARKOV PROCESS (noun)
  The noun MARKOV PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

  Familiarity information: MARKOV PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARKOV PROCESS (noun)

Meaning:

A simple stochastic process in which the distribution of future states depends only on the present state and not on how it arrived in the present state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

Markoff process; Markov process

Hypernyms ("Markov process" is a kind of...):

stochastic process (a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Markov process"):

Markoff chain; Markov chain (a Markov process for which the parameter is discrete time values)