stochastic process: Quick Facts

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Markov chain random walk time series stationary process Poisson process Ito stochastic calculus diffusion process reflecting barrier martingale absorbing process birthday problem Bayes’s theorem expected value central limit theorem indifference likelihood

Key People

Norbert Wiener.

Norbert Wiener

American mathematician

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Andrey Andreyevich Markov

Russian mathematician