semi-Markov process

English

Etymology

Named after Russian mathematician Andrey Markov (Андре́й Андре́евич Ма́рков) (1856—1922), who researched the processes.

Noun

semi-Markov process (plural semi-Markov processes)

1. (mathematics, probability theory) A generalization of the Markov chain in which the distribution of the amount of time that the process spends in a given state is permitted to be nonexponentially (generally) distributed.