 Square-minus-time martingale of a simple symmetric random walk (source code)

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= Square-minus-time martingale of a simple symmetric random walk
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For a simple symmetric random walk, $S_n^2-n$ is a martingale because the next increment has conditional mean zero and conditional square one.

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