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Given the coin tossing experiment, the question <strong>of</strong> interest is how to build <strong>hidden</strong><br />

Markov <strong>models</strong> that will explain the observation sequence. For example 2, we can<br />

consider several <strong>models</strong>: 1-coin model, 2-coins model and 3-coins model.<br />

1-coin model:<br />

Here, there are two states in the model, but each state is uniquely associated with either<br />

head (state 1) or tail (state 2); hence, this model is not <strong>hidden</strong> because the observation<br />

sequence uniquely defines the state.<br />

P[H]<br />

1-P[H]<br />

P[T]<br />

1 P[H] 2<br />

Y = H H T T H T H H T T H……<br />

S = 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 1…..<br />

P[H]- The probability <strong>of</strong> observing a head<br />

P[T]- The probability <strong>of</strong> observing a tail<br />

1-P[H]- The probability <strong>of</strong> leaving state 1<br />

Figure 2.1: 1- coin model<br />

2-coins model:<br />

There are two states in this model corresponding to a different, biased, coin being<br />

tossed; neither state is uniquely associated with either head or tail. Each state is<br />

characterized by a probability distribution <strong>of</strong> heads and tails, and the state transition<br />

matrix characterizes the transitions between the states. This matrix can be selected by a<br />

set <strong>of</strong> independent coin tosses or some other probabilistic event. The observable output<br />

sequences <strong>of</strong> 2-coins model are independent <strong>of</strong> the state transitions. This model is<br />

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