Research Paper Volume 14, Issue 12 pp 4935—4958

Figure 4. (A) The SOM displayed in Figure 1A may be partitioned into eight sections based on the well-being and propensity for depression of people contained within them. Green – highest well-being, yellow –intermediary state, red – low well-being. (B) We hypothesize that a person’s position in the SOM is not constant and may be described with a Markov process. People may freely roam within the defined sectors, while transitioning between sectors is equivalent to state transitions in a Markov chain. Actions such as therapy (T) may affect transition probabilities, transforming the model into a Markov decision process.