18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of processor executable instructions for implementing a function of: selecting a plurality of predefined demographic groups including externally selected characteristics including historical data from a plurality of actual viewers and historical actual electronic program guide (EPG) data, the demographic groups defined by viewing monitor information including watch date, watch start time, watch duration and watch channel, EPG data and associated demographic information, a first ratio of time watched to time available for at least one non-hopping program, and a second ratio of time watched to time available for at least one program with hopping, wherein hopping represents an act of leaving and returning to the same program, wherein the first ratio exclusively corresponds to non-hopped programs and said second ratio exclusively corresponds to hopped programs; associating a particular demographic group of the plurality of demographic groups with each viewer based on monitor behavior; capturing state transitions by defining monitor behavior in a plurality of statistical state machine families each representing viewing behavior of the particular demographic group; at a client-side system, combining the statistical state machine families into global statistical state machines defined in a global probability density function based on the particular demographic group; updating and reinforcing the global probability density function upon determining that a given probability function has a higher confidence level than a previous probability density function based in part on bias metrics; and outputting a global profile based on the global probability density function, wherein the global profile is suitable for determining programming content of a television server for classes of viewers.
18. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of processor executable instructions for implementing a function of: selecting a plurality of predefined demographic groups including externally selected characteristics including historical data from a plurality of actual viewers and historical actual electronic program guide (EPG) data, the demographic groups defined by viewing monitor information including watch date, watch start time, watch duration and watch channel, EPG data and associated demographic information, a first ratio of time watched to time available for at least one non-hopping program, and a second ratio of time watched to time available for at least one program with hopping, wherein hopping represents an act of leaving and returning to the same program, wherein the first ratio exclusively corresponds to non-hopped programs and said second ratio exclusively corresponds to hopped programs; associating a particular demographic group of the plurality of demographic groups with each viewer based on monitor behavior; capturing state transitions by defining monitor behavior in a plurality of statistical state machine families each representing viewing behavior of the particular demographic group; at a client-side system, combining the statistical state machine families into global statistical state machines defined in a global probability density function based on the particular demographic group; updating and reinforcing the global probability density function upon determining that a given probability function has a higher confidence level than a previous probability density function based in part on bias metrics; and outputting a global profile based on the global probability density function, wherein the global profile is suitable for determining programming content of a television server for classes of viewers. 28. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18 , further comprising instructions for defining a double random process with a plurality of dimensions, and determining parallel statistical state machine transition events in at least two of three state categories including channel, genre, and title.