Many theorists examine the behavior of stock prices, and the random walk hypothesis attempts to explain why stocks move the way they do. The random walk hypothesis states that stock market prices ...

Abstract: In this paper, we develop a Monte-Carlo based heuristic approach to approximate the objective function in long horizon optimal control problems. In this approach, we evolve the system state ...

Minimum Bayes risk (MBR) decoding is an inference method used in conditional language generation tasks, such as neural machine translation. Unlike maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding, which selects ...

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This course provides an introduction to the field of probability, statistical theory of sampling, parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. The course is organized in three chapters, covering the ...

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In a simple random sample, each individual in the population has an equal probability of being chosen. Additionally, each sample of size n has an equal probability of being the chosen sample. This ...

Random walk hypothesis suggests stock market movements are unpredictable, impacting active trading. This theory supports long-term investment strategies, like buy-and-hold, over short-term speculation ...