The Drunkard's Walk

Version 1.0.0.0 (1.52 KB) by Bud Kelly
Plots the location a drunkard taking n random steps that begin at a lamp post.
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The drunkard's walk is a commonly-used metaphor to explain the behavior of many natural events, the stock market, and more. This script plots a number (steps) of randomly-directed steps of a given length, to show that after a large number of steps the drunkard tends to remain in vicinity of the lamp post.

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Bud Kelly (2025). The Drunkard's Walk (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/66922-the-drunkard-s-walk), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.0.0.0