Meanings
markovian1
- Alternative letter-case form of Markovian.
Markovian2
- not comparablemathematicsExhibiting 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.
AR(p) models are simple univariate devices to capture the often-observed Markovian nature of financial and macroeconomic data […]
2018, Guidolin and Pedio, Essentials of Time Series for Financial Applications, Academic Press2 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.
1992, Casella and George, Explaining the Gibbs Sampler, in: The American Statistician 46(3) 167–174In period 0, the central bank chooses once and for all its policy among the class of Markovian policies of the form x#95;t#61;#92;psi#95;xu#95;t and #92;pi#95;t#61;#92;psi#95;#92;piu#95;t for all t […]
2015, Jordi Galí, Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, page 160
Origin
From Markov + -ian, named for the Russian mathematician Andrey Markov.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Hebrew מרקובי
- מרקובי (markóvi)Exhibiting the Markov property
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