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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Random Walk
Published in: A Natural Introduction to Probability Theory
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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In this chapter, we concentrate on an experiment that is strongly related to coin flips, the
random walk
. We shall prove a number of results that are very surprising and counterintuitive. It is quite nice that such results can be proved at this point already. The proofs are all based on (ingenious) counting methods.