Marginal Distribution of Brownian Motion

Stochastic Processes
Brownian Motion
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For standard Brownian motion with , what is the distribution of ?
Hint 1

Standard Brownian motion has independent, normally distributed increments starting from 0.

Hint 2

By definition for standard Brownian motion.

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  1. 1. Recall the defining property

    Standard Brownian motion satisfies for every , since is a single increment over an interval of length .

  2. 2. Substitute t = 2

    Setting gives the marginal distribution.

Answer: N(0,2)

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