Discover how Markov chains predict real systems, from Ulam and von Neumann’s Monte Carlo to PageRank, so you can grasp ...
Advances in Applied Probability, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 988-1005 (18 pages) This paper studies the absorption time of an integer-valued Markov chain with a lower-triangular transition matrix ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely examine an innovative way of ...
The world is full of uncertainty: accidents, storms, unruly financial markets, noisy communications. The world is also full of data. Probabilistic modeling and the related field of statistical ...
Markov chain models and phase-type distributions have emerged as powerful tools in healthcare analytics, offering a robust framework for understanding and predicting patient trajectories throughout ...