Relationship With Brownian Motion
The stochastic process Xt given by
(where Wt is a standard Brownian motion and ) is a Brownian motion with drift ν.
Then, the first passage time for a fixed level by Xt is distributed according to an inverse-gaussian:
Read more about this topic: Inverse Gaussian Distribution
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