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pedrosorio on July 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markov Chains Explained

It models the web as a Markov Chain where web pages are states and the transitions are the outgoing links.

jlukecarlson on July 6, 2014 [–]

Exactly and the actual page rank of the site comes from finding the equilibrium distribution from the transition matrix, which in this case is called a Google matrix.

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