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Markov Chains

"Markov Chains" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A stochastic process such that the conditional probability distribution for a state at any future instant, given the present state, is unaffected by any additional knowledge of the past history of the system.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Markov Chains" by people in this website by year, and whether "Markov Chains" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2015
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