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Re: Estimating Transition Probabilities

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Waites)
Fri Sep 6 20:57:17 2002

To: <sgorman1@gmu.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
Date: 06 Sep 2002 20:56:45 -0400
In-Reply-To: <x61y86rjys.fsf@styx.org>
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Apologies for replying to myself.

>>> I wrote:

    ww>                              C_ij A_j
    ww>           P_ij = lambda_i --------------
    ww>                           Sum_k C_jk A_k

The first factor in  the sum in should be C_ik, not  C_jk. There is no
imbedded chain,  nor "skew" in  the  equation. There  was  skew in  my
reasoning.  ;)  It  also means  that  lambda_i == 1 --  it is  already
normalized. 

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