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The vacillating mathematician

2. A stochastic version

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In the first part of this article, the author described the deterministic version of the Vacillating Mathematician. Stochastic generalizations of this idea lead to interesting Markov chain problems.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, 50011, Ames, Iowa, IA, USA

    K. B. Athreya

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Athreya, K.B. The vacillating mathematician. Reson 2, 34–40 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02835934

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