Assignment:
Say which of the following processes is a discrete-time MC. Motivate your claim.
a) The process that counts the number of successes in a row of a Bernoulli process.
b) The process that counts the size of a population of cells in successive days, knowing that in a day each cell may generate another cell with probability p, independently of the other cells.
c) The process that describes the state of a manufacturing machine at the beginning of each hour, knowing that the machine can only be in one of three states, namely power off, stand by, and active, and that after three hours of activity the machine needs to be powered off for another hour.