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random walk

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a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance

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To every event defined for the original random walk there corresponds an event of equal probability in the dual random walk, and in this way almost every probability relation has its dual. William Feller

Goals transform a random walk into a chase. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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