lévy flight

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Definition of lévy flight in English English dictionary

A 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

Related Terms

Lévy flights

plural form of Lévy flight

Hyphenation

le·vy flight

Turkish pronunciation

livi flayt

Pronunciation

/ˈlēvē ˈflīt/ /ˈliːviː ˈflaɪt/

Etymology

() For Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician