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By choosing a suitable probability distribution the decay of an unstable state of a macroscopic system can be described deterministically; the effects of fluctuations then show up in the initial probability density. There is no need to distinguish an initial linear and diffusive regime from a later deterministic one.
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Fritz Haake (1978) studied this question.
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