 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
{title2=$S_n^2-n$}

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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