stationary: Nonlinear Function
Created: August 28, 2022
Modified: August 28, 2022

stationary

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A stochastic process is (strictly) stationary if all of its joint distributions are invariant under time displacement.

It is wide-sense stationary (a weaker condition) if its first and second moments are invariant to time displacement. Such moments can be described by a time-invariant mean function μ\mu and covariance function cov(xt,xs)=c(ts)\text{cov}(x_t, x_s) = c(t-s).