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assumed to be asymptotic and only the stationary state is used for calculations. This<br />

leads to a linear system of equations that can be solved with less effort again. 56<br />

Both, Markov chains and Markov processes have become important analyzing<br />

methods within many different settings. As mentioned above, they can be used, for<br />

instance, to predict the time of first occurrence of a critical system state. Looking<br />

back to the setting of machinery condition monitoring from section 4.2 would allow to<br />

use Markov chains, for example, to predict upcoming malfunctions due to friction.<br />

([Waldmann04], p. 6-7)<br />

The Markov property seems to be promising also within the setting of sensor based<br />

temperature monitoring because a cooling device may malfunction at any time, no<br />

matter how long it worked fine before. But as already mentioned in section 2.2.5, a<br />

real technical malfunction has a very low unknown probability. Hence, starting<br />

distribution and transition matrix cannot be determined.<br />

5.8 Inferential Statistics<br />

In contrast to descriptive statistics, inferential approaches do not describe available<br />

datasets but try to generalize gained knowledge from existing data. These methods<br />

are applied to problems where data cannot be obtained entirely. The general idea is<br />

to analyze a representative sample of the statistical universe. But only in case of a<br />

really representative sample, the gained results can be applied correctly to the whole<br />

statistical universe. ([Eckey02], p. 242)<br />

The generalization of gained information is always bound to probability calculation.<br />

Hence, the general approach of inferential statistics is to determine the distribution of<br />

a representative sample. Afterwards, this distribution can be used to perform interval<br />

estimations, hypothesis testing or other similar methods. 57<br />

An application to sensor based temperature monitoring would require such a<br />

representative sample to determine the distribution. But in fact, such a representative<br />

sample does not exist, because of the randomness of external influences. This<br />

problem could partly be solved by applying monitoring data of a longer time period as<br />

representative sample to calculate the distribution.<br />

56 See ([Waldmann04], Chapter 4) for details<br />

57 See (e.g. [Scharnbacher04]) for details<br />

72

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