Aileen, a Scottish spy, has three fake identities that she uses to get information. The process isreally quite involved, but she uses a Markov chain process to make it more difficult for her Irishadversaries to track her: "Hope" (state 1), "Trixie"(state 2), and "Fiona" (state 3). The transitionmatrix is.5.5P =.1.9.6.4On the first observation, Aileen used "Fiona" as her identity. Which of the three fake identities isshe most likely to have used on the third observation?O Fiona and Trixie are equally likelyFionaO Hope and Fiona are equally likelyNone of the others are correctHopeTrixie

Given information: The transition matrix of a Markov chain is as given below:

Aileen, a Scottish spy, has three fake identities that she uses to get information. The process is really quite involved, but she uses a Markov chain process to make it more difficult for her Irish adversaries to track her: "Hope" (state 1), "Trixie"(state 2), and "Fiona" (state 3). The transition matrix is .5 0 .5]

Aileen, a Scottish spy, has three fake identities that she uses to get information. The process is really quite involved, but she uses a Markov chain process to make it more difficult for her Irish adversaries to track her: "Hope" (state 1), "Trixie"(state 2), and "Fiona" (state 3). The transition matrix is .5 0 .5]

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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