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In probability theory, uniformization method, (also known as Jensen's method〔 or the randomization method) is a method to compute transient solutions of finite state continuous-time Markov chains, by approximating the process by a discrete time Markov chain.〔 The original chain is scaled by the fastest transition rate ''γ'', so that transitions occur at the same rate in every state, hence the name ''uniform''isation. The method is simple to program and efficiently calculates an approximation to the transient distribution at a single point in time (near zero).〔 The method was first introduced by Winfried Grassmann in 1977. ==Method description== For a continuous-time Markov chain with transition rate matrix ''Q'', the uniformized discrete-time Markov chain has probability transition matrix , which is defined by :: with ''γ'', the uniform rate parameter, chosen such that :: In matrix notation: :: For a starting distribution π(0), the distribution at time ''t'', π(''t'') is computed by〔 :: This representation shows that a continuous-time Markov chain can be described by a discrete Markov chain with transition matrix ''P'' as defined above where jumps occur according to a Poisson process with intensity γt. In practice this series is terminated after finitely many terms. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uniformization (probability theory)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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