Additional Readings

https://www.math.fsu.edu/~cstover/teaching/sp18_mas3105/handouts/ch1/REFetc.pdf - An introduction to elementary row operations, row echelon form (ROF), and reduced row echelon form (RREF).

https://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/ - An interesting visual introduction of Markov chains. Includes a manipulatable transition matrix with a dynamic diagram to show its effects in real time.

http://langvillea.people.cofc.edu/MCapps7.pdf - Introduces and explains five historic applications of Markov chains.


References

Barwe. “采样2 - 离散马尔可夫链的几个性质.” 阔落煮酒, 9 July 2019, chenyin.top/stat/20190416-ea6c.html.

Bertsekas, Dimitri P., and John N. Tsitsiklis. Introduction to Probability. Athena Scientific, 2008.

Bulla, Jan. “5 - Basic Structure of a Hidden Markov Model.” ResearchGate, Jan. 2006, www.researchgate.net/figure/Basic-structure-of-a-Hidden-Markov-Model_fig2_24115579.

“Chapter 11 Markov Chains.” Dartmouth, dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/Chapter11.pdf. (Online PDF)

Jurafsky, Daniel, and James H Martin. “Hidden Markov Models.” Stanford, 2 Oct. 2019, web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/A.pdf. (Online PDF)

“Markov Chains.” Brilliant Math & Science Wiki, brilliant.org/wiki/markov-chains/.

“Markov Chains.” Stanford, web.stanford.edu/class/stat217/New12.pdf. (Online PDF)

Nicholson, Chris. “A Beginner's Guide to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).” Pathmind, wiki.pathmind.com/generative-adversarial-network-gan.

Scheepers, Herman. “Markov Chain Analysis and Simulation Using Python.” Medium, Towards Data Science, 23 Nov. 2019, towardsdatascience.com/markov-chain-analysis-and-simulation-using-python-4507cee0b06e.

Weissman, Alex. “Going Steady (State) with Markov Processes.” Bloomington Tutors Blog, bloomingtontutors.com/blog/going-steady-state-with-markov-processes.

WU, JUN. BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS. CHAPMAN & HALL CRC, 2018.

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