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The mathematical definition of ergodicity aims to capture ordinary every-day ideas about randomness.This includes ideas about systems that move in such a way as to (eventually) fill up all of space, such as diffusion and Brownian motion, as well as common-sense notions of mixing, such as mixing paints, drinks, cooking ingredients, industrial process mixing, smoke in a smoke-filled room, the ...
In this regime, any collection of random samples from a process must represent the average statistical properties of the entire regime. Conversely, a regime of a process that is not ergodic is said to be in non-ergodic regime. [2] A regime implies a time-window of a process whereby ergodicity measure is applied.
Ergodic theory is often concerned with ergodic transformations.The intuition behind such transformations, which act on a given set, is that they do a thorough job "stirring" the elements of that set. E.g. if the set is a quantity of hot oatmeal in a bowl, and if a spoonful of syrup is dropped into the bowl, then iterations of the inverse of an ergodic transformation of the oatmeal will not ...
The emerging field of ergodicity economics is beginning to show how including non-ergodic dynamics addresses some of the criticisms of neoclassical and pluralist economics; [4] [5] and, practically, what investors and entrepreneurs can do [6] to correct for the typical outcome of a business or investment fund (under non-ergodic capital dynamics ...
There are a variety of other anti-classification results. For example, replacing isomorphism with Kakutani equivalence, it can be shown that there are uncountably many non-Kakutani equivalent ergodic measure-preserving transformations of each entropy type. [9] These stand in contrast to the classification theorems. These include:
In probability theory, a stationary ergodic process is a stochastic process which exhibits both stationarity and ergodicity.In essence this implies that the random process will not change its statistical properties with time and that its statistical properties (such as the theoretical mean and variance of the process) can be deduced from a single, sufficiently long sample (realization) of the ...
More generally, a Markov chain is ergodic if there is a number N such that any state can be reached from any other state in any number of steps less or equal to a number N. In case of a fully connected transition matrix, where all transitions have a non-zero probability, this condition is fulfilled with N = 1.
Ergodicity economics is a research programme that applies the concept of ergodicity to problems in economics and decision-making under uncertainty. [1] The programme's main goal is to understand how traditional economic theory, framed in terms of the expectation values, changes when replacing expectation value with time averages.