Maybe you're looking for the term "Markovian"? http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MarkovProcess.html
On 08/09/2017 07:47 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > First. I had always supposed that a stochastic process was one whose value > was determined by two factors, a random factor AND it's last value. So the > next step in a random walk is "random" but the current value (it's present > position on a surface, say) is "the result of a stochastic process." From > your responses, and from a short rummage in Wikipedia, I still can't tell if > I am correct or not. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
