Hitting Time

In the study of stochastic processes in mathematics, a hitting time (or first hit time) is the first time at which a given process "hits" a given subset of the state space. Exit times and return times are also examples of hitting times.

Read more about Hitting Time:  Definitions, Examples, Début Theorem

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