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====Modification==== A '''modification''' of a stochastic process is another stochastic process, which is closely related to the original stochastic process. More precisely, a stochastic process <math>X</math> that has the same index set <math>T</math>, state space <math>S</math>, and probability space <math>(\Omega,{\cal F},P)</math> as another stochastic process <math>Y</math> is said to be a modification of <math>X</math> if for all <math>t\in T</math> the following <div class="center"><math> P(X_t=Y_t)=1 , </math></div> holds. Two stochastic processes that are modifications of each other have the same finite-dimensional law<ref name="RogersWilliams2000page130">{{cite book|author1=L. C. G. Rogers|author2=David Williams|title=Diffusions, Markov Processes, and Martingales: Volume 1, Foundations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W0ydAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA356|year=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-71749-7|page=130}}</ref> and they are said to be '''stochastically equivalent''' or '''equivalent'''.<ref name="Borovkov2013page530">{{cite book|author=Alexander A. Borovkov|title=Probability Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRk_AAAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4471-5201-9|page=530}}</ref> Instead of modification, the term '''version''' is also used,<ref name="Adler2010page14"/><ref name="Klebaner2005page48">{{cite book|author=Fima C. Klebaner|title=Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JYzW0uqQxB0C|year=2005|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=978-1-86094-555-7|page=48}}</ref><ref name="Øksendal2003page14">{{cite book|author=Bernt Øksendal|title=Stochastic Differential Equations: An Introduction with Applications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VgQDWyihxKYC|year=2003|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-04758-2|page=14}}</ref><ref name="Florescu2014page472">{{cite book|author=Ionut Florescu|title=Probability and Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5xEBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR22|year=2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-59320-2|pages=472}}</ref> however some authors use the term version when two stochastic processes have the same finite-dimensional distributions, but they may be defined on different probability spaces, so two processes that are modifications of each other, are also versions of each other, in the latter sense, but not the converse.<ref name="RevuzYor2013page18">{{cite book|author1=Daniel Revuz|author2=Marc Yor|title=Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OYbnCAAAQBAJ|year=2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-662-06400-9|pages=18–19}}</ref><ref name="FrizVictoir2010page571"/> If a continuous-time real-valued stochastic process meets certain moment conditions on its increments, then the [[Kolmogorov continuity theorem]] says that there exists a modification of this process that has continuous sample paths with probability one, so the stochastic process has a continuous modification or version.<ref name="Øksendal2003page14"/><ref name="Florescu2014page472"/><ref name="ApplebaumBook2004page20">{{cite book|author=David Applebaum|title=Lévy Processes and Stochastic Calculus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7eDUjdJxIkC|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-83263-2|page=20}}</ref> The theorem can also be generalized to random fields so the index set is <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space<ref name="Kunita1997page31">{{cite book|author=Hiroshi Kunita|title=Stochastic Flows and Stochastic Differential Equations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_S1RiCosqbMC|year=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59925-2|page=31}}</ref> as well as to stochastic processes with [[metric spaces]] as their state spaces.<ref name="Kallenberg2002page">{{cite book|author=Olav Kallenberg|title=Foundations of Modern Probability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L6fhXh13OyMC|year=2002|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-387-95313-7|page=35}}</ref>
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