A two-parameter random walk with approximate exponential probability distribution
Mathematical Physics
2009-11-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics
math.MP
Abstract
We study a non-Markovian random walk in dimension 1. It depends on two parameters eps_r and eps_l, the probabilities to go straight on when walking to the right, respectively to the left. The position x of the walk after n steps and the number of reversals of direction k are used to estimate eps_r and eps_l. We calculate the joint probability distribution p_n(x,k) in closed form and show that, approximately, it belongs to the exponential family.
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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0512077,
title = {A two-parameter random walk with approximate exponential probability distribution},
author = {Erik Van der Straeten and Jan Naudts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0512077},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, updated reference to companion paper cond-mat/0601263