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Translated from Kibernetika, No. 4, pp. 56–64, July–August, 1972.
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Zakharin, A.M. Lumping the states of Markov and semi-Markov processes and the use of the lumping operation for the investigation of stochastic systems. Cybern Syst Anal 8, 589–598 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01068280
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