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

Key People

Norbert Wiener.

Norbert Wiener

American mathematician

Andrey Andreyevich Markov

Russian mathematician