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Fluctuating phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. The reader just needs to look at the first plot from Fig. 2.1 which represents the signal X(t) as a function of time. If I would say that this represents the hourly series for the temperature of a city during a whole week you would probably believe it (and this is actually what it is). But if I would say that it represents the amplitude of a sound signal or of some electronic device, or the evolution of a biological population in a given habitat, you would probably believe it, too.
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Méndez, V., Campos, D., Bartumeus, F. (2014). Introduction to Stochastic Processes. In: Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology. Springer Series in Synergetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39010-4_2
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