The random walk theorem, first presented by French mathematician Louis Bachelier in 1900 and then expanded upon by economist Burton Malkiel in his 1973 book A Random Walk Down Wall Street, asserts ...

In a one-dimensional random walk, a “walker” is confined to a long, narrow path and moves forward or backward in steps according to the results of repeatedly tossing a coin. The walker takes a step in ...

Over the past quarter-century there has been considerable innovation in methods for assessing the tempo and mode of evolution in paleobiological data sets. The current literature of these methods ...

We've gotten really good at generating big datasets. From what we search for on Google to all the stuff we do on Facebook, we generate a lot of data. And there have in turn been a proliferation of ...