Can anyone please give an example of how the poisson process is a Markov process? I got a bit confused with the poisson process rate, the independent increments, the state space of the process.
N(t) records the number of occurrences of an event within the time interval 0 & t; and the events occur singly and at a rate lambda. So when an event occurs between 0 & t it adds up 1 to N(t). So I was wondering what is the Markov process here and what is the state space ?
Moreover having read the 'Poisson Process revisited' (page - 24 Chapter - 5) I was wondering that with the process jumping from 0 to 1, 1 to 2, and so on does the state 2 includes the state 1 (+1 increment) and state 3 includes state 2(+1 increment) and so on ???
I am really mixed up, a clear explanation would help me a lot. Thank You.
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