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

Key People

Norbert Wiener.

Norbert Wiener

American mathematician

Andrey Andreyevich Markov

Russian mathematician