Time Series and Stochastic Processes

Definition


A process is a function that takes on possibly different values at different times. That is, it is a function
{% X(t) : t \rightarrow X_t %}
t may either take on values from a discrete set such as {% {0,1,2,3,4,5...} %} or from an interval {% [a,b] %}.

A stochastic (or random process) is one where there are a collection of functions, indexed by {% \omega \in \Omega %}
{% X(\omega) = t \rightarrow X_t(\omega) %}

Notions of Equality


There are several notions of equality between two processes.

Definitions, Theoremns and Additional Topics


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