A stochastic process has stationary increments when the probability distribution of depends only on the duration , whenever both times belong to the index set. The clock origin then does not change the increment law. For Brownian motion, that law is ; for a rate- Poisson process, it is a Poisson distribution with expected value . Neither process itself is a stationary process: their variances grow with . Stationary increments and a stationary process describe different properties.

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