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====Bernoulli process==== The Bernoulli process, which can serve as a mathematical model for flipping a biased coin, is possibly the first stochastic process to have been studied.<ref name="Florescu2014page301"/> The process is a sequence of independent Bernoulli trials,<ref name="BertsekasTsitsiklis2002page273"/> which are named after [[Jacob Bernoulli]] who used them to study games of chance, including probability problems proposed and studied earlier by Christiaan Huygens.<ref name="Hald2005page226">{{cite book|author=Anders Hald|title=A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOQy6-qnVx8C|year=2005|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-471-72517-6|page=226}}</ref> Bernoulli's work, including the Bernoulli process, were published in his book ''Ars Conjectandi'' in 1713.<ref name="Lebowitz1984">{{cite book|author=Joel Louis Lebowitz|title=Nonequilibrium phenomena II: from stochastics to hydrodynamics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8IRAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=North-Holland Pub.|isbn=978-0-444-86806-0|pages=8β10}}</ref>
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