Memorylessness
In probability and statistics, memorylessness is a property of probability distributions. It describes situations where previous failures or elapsed time does not affect future trials or further wait time. Only the geometric and exponential distributions are memoryless.
Memorylessness - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Waiting time property of certain probability distributions For use of the term in materials science , see hysteresis . For use of the term in stochastic processes and Markov chains , see Markov property . In probability and statistics , memorylessness is a property of probability distributions . It describes situations where previous failures or elapsed time does not affect future trials or further wait time. Only the geometric and exponential distributions are memoryless. Definition [ edit ] A random variable X {
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