easy · Quantitative Finance prob-stats
What distinguishes a discrete-time Markov chain from a general stochastic process?
- The state at time n+1 depends only on the state at time n.
- It is limited to just two possible discrete states.
- Its state values are always assumed to follow a normal distribution.
- It is always fully deterministic, with no randomness in outcomes.
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