11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising splitting a spatial co-occurrence into a plurality of sub-occurrences, each sub-occurrence assigned to represent the spatial co-occurrence in a different temporal sequence of the higher-order Markov chain.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising splitting a spatial co-occurrence into a plurality of sub-occurrences, each sub-occurrence assigned to represent the spatial co-occurrence in a different temporal sequence of the higher-order Markov chain. 13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising generating the temporal statistics data by receiving a single round of the sequence of the spatial co-occurrence information.