Model systems with stochasticity

MIT 6.821: Underactuated Robotics

Spring 2024, Lecture 19

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Psychohistory 

  • one cannot foresee the actions of a particular individual, but
  • the laws of statistics still apply to very large groups of people, and
  • these can be used to predict the general flow of future events.