17 hours ago, mSparks said:

you dont think dtmc is a "stats" model do you?

I have been lumping stats and probabilities together, yes. I agree with you that they are technically different, but both are far enough away from physics (and they do have a fair bit in common), that I was incorrectly putting it in that category.

1 hour ago, blingthinger said:

I have been lumping stats and probabilities together, yes. I agree with you that they are technically different, but both are far enough away from physics (and they do have a fair bit in common), that I was incorrectly putting it in that category.

dtmc is a form of finite state machine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine