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ONE-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALKS - University of Chicago

ONE-DIMENSIONAL RANDOM WALKS 1. SIMPLE RANDOM WALK Definition 1. A random walk on the integers Z with step distribution F and initial state x 2Z is a sequenceSn of random variables whose increments are independent, identically distributed random variables ˘i with common distribution F, that is, (1) Sn =x + Xn i=1 ˘i. The definition extends in an obvious way …

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