# Tagged Questions

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### Calculate variance of random walk?

How can I symbolically calculate the variance of the following random walk in Mathematica? Given several discrete random variables such that $p(Z_i=1-2k)=p$, where $k$ is a small real number, and ...
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### Recommended book on random processes to understand new functionality in Mathematica 9?

I am interested in exploring the new functionality on random processes available in Mathematica 9, but I am not familiar with all of the underlying mathematics. Could you recommend a book that ...
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### Draw from HistogramDistribution with ParallelTable

I wanted to check something, but ran into troubles using HistogramDistribution in combination with ParallelTable. The code does the following: Compute a HistogramDistribution of some sample and use ...
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### Generating a range of numbers according to some rules

I'm pretty new to Mathematica, and I'm mainly a programmer so I don't have a lot of knowledge about maths. I want to generate a set of UNIQUE incremental numbers (series) according to the following ...
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### Wald–Wolfowitz Runs Test

Does Mathematica 8 implement Wald–Wolfowitz runs test for randomness? I can't find it in the documentation. I would like to test some fit residuals.
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### Efficiently generating n-D Gaussian random fields

I am interested in an efficient code to generate an $n$-D Gaussian random field (sometimes called processes in other fields of research), which has applications in cosmology. I wrote the following ...
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### RandomVariate with a Discrete Distribution

Nature has provided me with a random variable $Z$ taking on the values $0, 1, 2, \ldots$, with probabilities $z_0, z_1, \cdots$. I can sample from the distribution of $Z$ reasonably efficiently (I ...
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### Most efficient way to obtain samples from high-dimensional multivariate distributions?

Is MultinormalDistribution[] efficient and easy to use for high dimensions? I have a variable $n$ representing the dimension of a Monte Carlo integration I do on a ...
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### Which Distributions can be Compiled using RandomVariate

Recently, Oleksandr kindly showed a list of Mathematica commands that can be compiled. RandomVariate was part of that list. However, whether this can be compiled depends upon the distribution that is ...
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