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Re:Small Introduction to Markov Chains by tantalum on Thursday February 26, 2015 @11:43AM (#9113429)
Abnormal really means that it has a probability less than some threshold. So you might have a transition that has a probability of less then 0.1, depending on your situation, you might consider that abnormal even thought that transition does exist. Also a non existent transition would be considered "abnormal" because the probability is 0 in your model.

I've been thinking about doing a part 2 with text analysis and a cool use case would be to detect "abnormal" text from an author because he/she uses strings of words that have a low probability in the rest of their text.

Hope this helps and I'm glad you like the post.

Re:Small Introduction to Markov Chains by sswaner on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:34AM (#9119717)
Thanks for the response. Yours is the clearest intro to Markov Chains that I have found.