6.19: Biased Random Walks, Distributions

Description
In this lecture look at simulations, they are typically descriptive not prescriptive. Describe a situation, they don't tell you what the answer is. Here a simulation is not an optimization procedure. When we looked at optimization, that was prescriptive. We ran an optimization algorithm, and it gave us the best possible solution. A simulation typically doesn't give you this best possible solution, but if you give it the starting point, it will tell you the consequences of that.


"Prof. Eric Grimson& Prof. John Guttag,6. 19: Biased Random Walks, Distributions, 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare),http://ocw.mit.edu (30-07-2011). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms/#cc"