transition matrix (English, noun)
expansion: transition matrix (plural transition matrices or transition matrixes)
Senses:
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: stochastic processes
glosses: A square matrix whose rows consist of nonnegative real numbers, with each row summing to 1. Used to describe the transitions of a Markov chain; its element in the ith row and jth column describes the probability of moving from state i to state j in one time step.
Forms:
form: transition matrices
tags: plural
form: transition matrixes
tags: plural