What is Simmap?

SIMMAP is Graphical User Interface (GUI) program written to run on the Apple’s OS X operating system.

What is stochastic mapping?

Phylogenetic stochastic mapping is a method for reconstructing the history of trait changes on a phylogenetic tree relating species/organisms carrying the trait. State-of-the-art methods assume that the trait evolves according to a continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) and work well for small state spaces.

What makes a matrix stochastic?

A square matrix A is stochastic if all of its entries are nonnegative, and the entries of each column sum to 1. A matrix is positive if all of its entries are positive numbers. A positive stochastic matrix is a stochastic matrix whose entries are all positive numbers. In particular, no entry is equal to zero.

What is stochastic behavior?

Stochastic (from the Greek στόχος for aim or guess) refers to systems whose behaviour is intrinsically non-deterministic. A stochastic process is one whose behavior is non-deterministic, in that a system’s subsequent state is determined both by the process’s predictable actions and by a random element.

How do you know if a matrix is stochastic?

Is the Google matrix regular stochastic?

Fact. The Google Matrix is a positive stochastic matrix.

What is a stochastic relationship?

A stochastic model represents a situation where uncertainty is present. In other words, it’s a model for a process that has some kind of randomness. The word stochastic comes from the Greek word stokhazesthai meaning to aim or guess.

What are stochastic signals?

Stochastic signal is used to describe a non deterministic signal, i.e. a signal with some kind of uncertainity. A random signal is, by definition, a stochastic signal with whole uncertainty, i.e. with autocorrelation function with an impulse at the origin and power spectrum completely flat.