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Markov Chains

Lewis Blake, Duke University

with the assistance of
Lester Coyle, Loyola College
Betty Mayfield, Hood College

David Smith, Duke University

Purposes: To introduce the concepts of transition matrices and Markov chains; to provide motivation for the definition of matrix multiplication in the context of an interesting application; and to lay the groundwork for applied problems that can be solved later with eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

Prerequisites:

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