Markovian
/mɑɹˈkoʊvi.ən/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states. not-comparable
"It is not immediately obvious that a random variable with distribution f(x) can be produced by the Gibbs sequence of (2.3) or that the sequence even converges. That this is so relies on the Markovian nature of the iterations, which we now develop in detail for the simple case of a 2 × 2 table with multinomial sampling."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Markovian. alt-of
Adjective
- 1 relating to or generated by a Markov process wordnet
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More examples"It is not immediately obvious that a random variable with distribution f(x) can be produced by the Gibbs sequence of (2.3) or that the sequence even converges. That this is so relies on the Markovian nature of the iterations, which we now develop in detail for the simple case of a 2 × 2 table with multinomial sampling."
Etymology
From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.