Random Walk (IMAGE)

University of Innsbruck

Random Walk

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An example for a random walk is the Galton board, which is used to demonstrate binomial distribution to students. On this board, balls are dropped from the top and they repeatedly bounce either left or right in a random way as they hit pins stuck in the board.

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Antoine Taveneaux (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)

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