MARKOV PROCESS


Meaning of MARKOV PROCESS in English

Statistics.

a process in which future values of a random variable are statistically determined by present events and dependent only on the event immediately preceding.

Also, Markoff process .

[ 1935-40; after Russian mathematician Andrei Andreevich Markov (1856-1922), who developed it ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .