Editing Stochastic process (section)

===Poisson process===
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The Poisson process is a stochastic process that has different forms and definitions.<ref name="Tijms2003page1">{{cite book|author=Henk C. Tijms|title=A First Course in Stochastic Models|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBeNngEACAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-49881-0|pages=1, 2}}</ref><ref name="DaleyVere-Jones2006chap2">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8|pages=19–36}}</ref> It can be defined as a counting process, which is a stochastic process that represents the random number of points or events up to some time. The number of points of the process that are located in the interval from zero to some given time is a Poisson random variable that depends on that time and some parameter. This process has the natural numbers as its state space and the non-negative numbers as its index set. This process is also called the Poisson counting process, since it can be interpreted as an example of a counting process.<ref name="Tijms2003page1"/>

If a Poisson process is defined with a single positive constant, then the process is called a homogeneous Poisson process.<ref name="Tijms2003page1"/><ref name="PinskyKarlin2011">{{cite book|author1=Mark A. Pinsky|author2=Samuel Karlin|title=An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqUmjp7k1kEC|year=2011|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-381416-6|page=241}}</ref> The homogeneous Poisson process is a member of important classes of stochastic processes such as Markov processes and Lévy processes.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/>

The homogeneous Poisson process can be defined and generalized in different ways. It can be defined such that its index set is the real line, and this stochastic process is also called the stationary Poisson process.<ref name="Kingman1992page38">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=38}}</ref><ref name="DaleyVere-Jones2006page19">{{cite book|author1=D.J. Daley|author2=D. Vere-Jones|title=An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes: Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Sv4BwAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-21564-8|page=19}}</ref> If the parameter constant of the Poisson process is replaced with some non-negative integrable function of <math>t</math>, the resulting process is called an inhomogeneous or nonhomogeneous Poisson process, where the average density of points of the process is no longer constant.<ref name="Kingman1992page22">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=22}}</ref> Serving as a fundamental process in queueing theory, the Poisson process is an important process for mathematical models, where it finds applications for models of events randomly occurring in certain time windows.<ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page118">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|pages=118, 119}}</ref><ref name="Kleinrock1976page61">{{cite book|author=Leonard Kleinrock|title=Queueing Systems: Theory|url=https://archive.org/details/queueingsystems00klei|url-access=registration|year=1976|publisher=Wiley|isbn=978-0-471-49110-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/queueingsystems00klei/page/61 61]}}</ref>

Defined on the real line, the Poisson process can be interpreted as a stochastic process,<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/><ref name="Rosenblatt1962page94">{{cite book|author=Murray Rosenblatt|title=Random Processes|url=https://archive.org/details/randomprocesses00rose_0|url-access=registration|year=1962|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/randomprocesses00rose_0/page/94 94]}}</ref> among other random objects.<ref name="Haenggi2013page10and18">{{cite book|author=Martin Haenggi|title=Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLtDhblwWEgC|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01469-5|pages=10, 18}}</ref><ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page41and108">{{cite book|author1=Sung Nok Chiu|author2=Dietrich Stoyan|author3=Wilfrid S. Kendall|author4=Joseph Mecke|title=Stochastic Geometry and Its Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=825NfM6Nc-EC|year=2013|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-65825-3|pages=41, 108}}</ref> But then it can be defined on the <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space or other mathematical spaces,<ref name="Kingman1992page11">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=11}}</ref> where it is often interpreted as a random set or a random counting measure, instead of a stochastic process.<ref name="Haenggi2013page10and18"/><ref name="ChiuStoyan2013page41and108"/> In this setting, the Poisson process, also called the Poisson point process, is one of the most important objects in probability theory, both for applications and theoretical reasons.<ref name="Stirzaker2000"/><ref name="Streit2010page1">{{cite book|author=Roy L. Streit|title=Poisson Point Processes: Imaging, Tracking, and Sensing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KAWmFYUJ5zsC&pg=PA11|year=2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4419-6923-1|page=1}}</ref> But it has been remarked that the Poisson process does not receive as much attention as it should, partly due to it often being considered just on the real line, and not on other mathematical spaces.<ref name="Streit2010page1"/><ref name="Kingman1992pagev">{{cite book|author=J. F. C. Kingman|title=Poisson Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEiM-OtwDHkC|year=1992|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-159124-2|page=v}}</ref>