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Markov chains have appeared several times in Chapters 7 and 8 of this book, and it is now time that we gave them formal recognition.
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Hammersley, J.M., Handscomb, D.C. (1964). Problems in Statistical Mechanics. In: Monte Carlo Methods. Monographs on Applied Probability and Statistics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5819-7_9
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