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  2. Memorylessness - Wikipedia

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    The memorylessness property asserts that the number of previously failed trials has no effect on the number of future trials needed for a success. Geometric random variables can also be defined as taking values in N 0 {\displaystyle \mathbb {N} _{0}} , which describes the number of failed trials before the first success in a sequence of ...

  3. Markov property - Wikipedia

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    The term strong Markov property is similar to the Markov property, except that the meaning of "present" is defined in terms of a random variable known as a stopping time. The term Markov assumption is used to describe a model where the Markov property is assumed to hold, such as a hidden Markov model .

  4. Quantum channel - Wikipedia

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    We will assume for the moment that all state spaces of the systems considered, classical or quantum, are finite-dimensional. The memoryless in the section title carries the same meaning as in classical information theory: the output of a channel at a given time depends only upon the corresponding input and not any previous ones.

  5. Information theory - Wikipedia

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    A memoryless source is one in which each message is an independent identically distributed random variable, whereas the properties of ergodicity and stationarity impose less restrictive constraints. All such sources are stochastic. These terms are well studied in their own right outside information theory.

  6. Markov chain - Wikipedia

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    For instance, =,, could be defined to represent the state where there is one quarter, zero dimes, and five nickels on the table after 6 one-by-one draws. This new model could be represented by 6 × 6 × 6 = 216 {\displaystyle 6\times 6\times 6=216} possible states, where each state represents the number of coins of each type (from 0 to 5) that ...

  7. Poisson point process - Wikipedia

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    A visual depiction of a Poisson point process starting. In probability theory, statistics and related fields, a Poisson point process (also known as: Poisson random measure, Poisson random point field and Poisson point field) is a type of mathematical object that consists of points randomly located on a mathematical space with the essential feature that the points occur independently of one ...

  8. Shannon–Fano coding - Wikipedia

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    We can pick codewords in order, choosing the lexicographically first word of the correct length that maintains the prefix-free property. Clearly A gets the codeword 00. To maintain the prefix-free property, B's codeword may not start 00, so the lexicographically first available word of length 3 is 010. Continuing like this, we get the following ...

  9. Renewal theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the renewal process is modelling the numbers of breakdown of different machines, then the holding time represents the time between one machine breaking down before another one does. The Poisson process is the unique renewal process with the Markov property , [ 1 ] as the exponential distribution is the unique continuous random ...