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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    various categories, which include random walks, martingales, Markov processes, Lévy processes, Gaussian processes, random fields, renewal processes, and...
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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, 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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  • 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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