Editing Stochastic process (section)

===Wiener process===
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The Wiener process is a stochastic process with [[stationary increments|stationary]] and [[independent increments]] that are [[normally distributed]] based on the size of the increments.<ref name="RogersWilliams2000page1">{{cite book|author1=L. C. G. Rogers|author2=David Williams|title=Diffusions, Markov Processes, and Martingales: Volume 1, Foundations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0ydAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-71749-7|page=1}}</ref><ref name="Klebaner2005page56">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7|page=56}}</ref> The Wiener process is named after [[Norbert Wiener]], who proved its mathematical existence, but the process is also called the Brownian motion process or just Brownian motion due to its historical connection as a model for [[Brownian movement]] in liquids.<ref name="Brush1968page1">{{cite journal|last1=Brush|first1=Stephen G.|title=A history of random processes|journal=Archive for History of Exact Sciences|volume=5|issue=1|year=1968|pages=1–2|issn=0003-9519|doi=10.1007/BF00328110|s2cid=117623580}}</ref><ref name="Applebaum2004page1338">{{cite journal|last1=Applebaum|first1=David|title=Lévy processes: From probability to finance and quantum groups|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=51|issue=11|year=2004|pages=1338}}</ref><ref name="GikhmanSkorokhod1969page21">{{cite book|author1=Iosif Ilyich Gikhman|author2=Anatoly Vladimirovich Skorokhod|title=Introduction to the Theory of Random Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJyLzG7N7r8C&pg=PR2|year=1969|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-69387-3|page=21}}</ref>

[[File:DriftedWienerProcess1D.svg|thumb|left|Realizations of Wiener processes (or Brownian motion processes) with drift ({{color|blue|blue}}) and without drift ({{color|red|red}})]]

Playing a central role in the theory of probability, the Wiener process is often considered the most important and studied stochastic process, with connections to other stochastic processes.<ref name="doob1953stochasticP46to47"/><ref name="RogersWilliams2000page1"/><ref name="Steele2012page29">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=29}}</ref><ref name="Florescu2014page471">{{cite book|author=Ionut Florescu|title=Probability and Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5xEBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR22|year=2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-59320-2|page=471}}</ref><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page21">{{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=21, 22}}</ref><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014pageVIII">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=VIII}}</ref><ref name="RevuzYor2013pageIX">{{cite book|author1=Daniel Revuz|author2=Marc Yor|title=Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYbnCAAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-06400-9|page=IX|author1-link=Daniel Revuz}}</ref> Its index set and state space are the non-negative numbers and real numbers, respectively, so it has both continuous index set and states space.<ref name="Rosenthal2006page186">{{cite book|author=Jeffrey S Rosenthal|title=A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=am1IDQAAQBAJ|year=2006|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Co Inc|isbn=978-981-310-165-4|page=186}}</ref> But the process can be defined more generally so its state space can be <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space.<ref name="Klebaner2005page81"/><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page21"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Donald L. Snyder|author2=Michael I. Miller|title=Random Point Processes in Time and Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_3UBwAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4612-3166-0|page=33}}</ref> If the [[mean]] of any increment is zero, then the resulting Wiener or Brownian motion process is said to have zero drift. If the mean of the increment for any two points in time is equal to the time difference multiplied by some constant <math> \mu</math>, which is a real number, then the resulting stochastic process is said to have drift <math> \mu</math>.<ref name="Steele2012page118">{{cite book|author=J. Michael Steele|title=Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsgkBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR4|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4684-9305-4|page=118}}</ref><ref name="MörtersPeres2010page1"/><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page78">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=78}}</ref>

[[Almost surely]], a sample path of a Wiener process is continuous everywhere but [[nowhere differentiable function|nowhere differentiable]]. It can be considered as a continuous version of the simple random walk.<ref name="Applebaum2004page1337">{{cite journal|last1=Applebaum|first1=David|title=Lévy processes: From probability to finance and quantum groups|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=51|issue=11|year=2004|page=1337}}</ref><ref name="MörtersPeres2010page1">{{cite book|author1=Peter Mörters|author2=Yuval Peres|title=Brownian Motion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-TbA-dSrzYC|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-48657-6|pages=1, 3}}</ref> The process arises as the mathematical limit of other stochastic processes such as certain random walks rescaled,<ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page61">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=61}}</ref><ref name="Shreve2004page93">{{cite book|author=Steven E. Shreve|title=Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8kD1NwQBsQC|year=2004|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-40101-0|page=93}}</ref> which is the subject of [[Donsker's theorem]] or invariance principle, also known as the functional central limit theorem.<ref name="Kallenberg2002page225and260">{{cite book|author=Olav Kallenberg|title=Foundations of Modern Probability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6fhXh13OyMC|year=2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95313-7|pages=225, 260}}</ref><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page70">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=70}}</ref><ref name="MörtersPeres2010page131">{{cite book|author1=Peter Mörters|author2=Yuval Peres|title=Brownian Motion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-TbA-dSrzYC|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-48657-6|page=131}}</ref>

The Wiener process is a member of some important families of stochastic processes, including Markov processes, Lévy processes and Gaussian processes.<ref name="RogersWilliams2000page1"/><ref name="Applebaum2004page1337"/> The process also has many applications and is the main stochastic process used in stochastic calculus.<ref name="Klebaner2005">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7}}</ref><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2}}</ref> It plays a central role in quantitative finance,<ref name="Applebaum2004page1341">{{cite journal|last1=Applebaum|first1=David|title=Lévy processes: From probability to finance and quantum groups|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=51|issue=11|year=2004|page=1341}}</ref><ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page340">{{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|page=340}}</ref> where it is used, for example, in the Black–Scholes–Merton model.<ref name="Klebaner2005page124">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7|page=124}}</ref> The process is also used in different fields, including the majority of natural sciences as well as some branches of social sciences, as a mathematical model for various random phenomena.<ref name="Steele2012page29"/><ref name="KaratzasShreve2014page47">{{cite book|author1=Ioannis Karatzas|author2=Steven Shreve|title=Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w0SgBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT5|year=1991|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-0949-2|page=47}}</ref><ref name="Wiersema2008page2">{{cite book|author=Ubbo F. Wiersema|title=Brownian Motion Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0h-n0WWuD9cC|year=2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-02171-2|page=2}}</ref>