Meanings
nounLévy flight (plural Lévy flights)
plural Lévy flights
- mathematicsA type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
Synonyms: Lévy walk
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
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Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).
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