[51834] in North American Network Operators' Group
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>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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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