Random walk
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title:
Random walk
text:
In 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 some mathematical space. An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer number line Z which starts at 0, and at each step moves +1 or −1 with equal probability. Other examples include the path traced by a molecule as it travels in a liquid or a gas, the search path of a foraging animal, or the price of a fluc
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Process forming a path from many random steps
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk
date created:
2003-05-28T05:58:05Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T05:55:33Z
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