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    mathematics, a random walk, sometimes known as a drunkard's walk, is a stochastic process that describes a path that consists of a succession of random steps on...
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  • The random walk hypothesis is a financial theory stating that stock market prices evolve according to a random walk (so price changes are random) and thus...
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    various categories, which include random walks, martingales, Markov processes, Lévy processes, Gaussian processes, random fields, renewal processes, and...
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  • Quantum walks are quantum analogs of classical random walks. In contrast to the classical random walk, where the walker occupies definite states and the...
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  • higher probabilities. Random walk Monte Carlo methods are a kind of random simulation or Monte Carlo method. However, whereas the random samples of the integrand...
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  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street, written by Burton Gordon Malkiel, a Princeton University economist, is a book on the subject of stock markets which popularized...
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  • is a random walk in which the step-lengths have a stable distribution, a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed. When defined as a walk in a space...
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    signal noise produced by Brownian motion, hence its alternative name of random walk noise. The term "Brown noise" does not come from the color, but after...
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  • Random Walk is a 1988 novel by Lawrence Block. It was first published by Tor Books. One day, Guthrie Wagner hears a voice telling him to abandon his life...
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    probability theory, a branching random walk is a stochastic process that generalizes both the concept of a random walk and of a branching process. At every...
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    In mathematics, loop-erased random walk is a model for a random simple path with important applications in combinatorics, physics and quantum field theory...
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  • hand) of the game is not independent of the past states. Consider a random walk on the number line where, at each step, the position (call it x) may...
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  • The random walk model of consumption was introduced by economist Robert Hall. This model uses the Euler numerical method to model consumption. He created...
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    theory Quantum mechanics Random walk Statistical mechanics Statistics In the 19th century, scientists used the idea of random motions of molecules in the...
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    Wiener process (redirect from Brownian walk)
    random walk, or other discrete-time stochastic processes with stationary independent increments. This is known as Donsker's theorem. Like the random walk...
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  • a simple random walk in two dimensions, but they start from different points. The simplest way to couple them is simply to force them to walk together...
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    instead of following a strict random walk, stock price variations executed a Lévy flight. A Lévy flight is a random walk that is occasionally disrupted...
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    stochastic processes which converge (in the limit) to Brownian motion (see random walk and Donsker's theorem). The Roman philosopher-poet Lucretius' scientific...
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  • either of indegree and outdegree can be used for normalization: The left (random-walk) normalized Laplacian matrix is defined as: L rw := D + L = I − D + A...
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    for Functionals of Random Walks. AMS Bookstore. Theorem 1.1, p. 8. ISBN 0-8218-0438-3. Petrov, V. V. (1976). Sums of Independent Random Variables. New York-Heidelberg:...
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    a random walk, the self-avoiding walk. The simplest possible polymer model is presented by the ideal chain, corresponding to a simple random walk. Experimental...
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    scatter the light path further, hence the name "random walk". Isotropic scattering is simulated by picking random directions evenly along a sphere. Anisotropic...
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  • the segments of each such chain in an ensemble as performing a random walk (or "random flight") in three dimensions, limited only by the constraint that...
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  • Random walk closeness centrality is a measure of centrality in a network, which describes the average speed with which randomly walking processes reach...
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  • the random walk hypothesis. The random walk index (RWI) is a technical indicator that attempts to determine if a stock's price movement is random in nature...
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    A distinguishing feature of diffusion is that it depends on particle random walk, and results in mixing or mass transport without requiring directed bulk...
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    for this risk. How efficient markets are (and are not) linked to the random walk theory can be described through the fundamental theorem of asset pricing...
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    following a random walk through the CVD reactor, boundary layer, material structures etc. Sometimes, the movements might follow a biased-random walk depending...
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  • generally, or random movements around the value that reflects the existing information set. Burton Malkiel, in his influential 1973 work A Random Walk Down Wall...
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    swimming in a uniform environment will form a random walk with relatively straight swims interrupted by random tumbles that reorient the bacterium. Bacteria...
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