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Wiener Process


A continuous-time stochastic process W(t) for t>=0 with W(0)=0 and such that the increment W(t)-W(s) is Gaussian with mean 0 and variance t-s for any 0<=s<t, and increments for nonoverlapping time intervals are independent. Brownian motion (i.e., random walk with random step sizes) is the most common example of a Wiener process.


See also

Ito's Lemma, Random Walk, Wiener Measure

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References

Finch, S. "Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process." May 15, 2004. http://algo.inria.fr/csolve/ou.pdf.Karatsas, I. and Shreve, S. Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1997.Papoulis, A. "Wiener-Lévy Process." §15-3 in Probability, Random Variables, and Stochastic Processes, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 292-293, 1984.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Wiener Process." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/WienerProcess.html

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