JMU
Markov Chains
An Introduction


Prof. David Bernstein
James Madison University

Computer Science Department
bernstdh@jmu.edu


Preliminaries
Preliminaries (cont.)
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(Courtesy of Hackles)
Markov Chains
Transition Probabilities
A Special Class of Markov Chains
An Example
An Example (cont.)
An Example (cont.)
Another Example
Some Important Results
Some Important Times
Probability of First Passage
Classification of States
Existence of the Limit Revisited
A Real World Example
A Real World Example (cont.)
Expanding the State Space
Applications
Applications (cont.)
Applications (cont.)
Applications (cont.)