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This paper further investigates the connection between the scale-relativistic and stochastic mechanics approaches, respectively, with the study of the Burgers equation, which in this case appears as a stochastic geodesic equation for the drift. By further demanding time reversibility of the drift, the Langevin equation can also describe equivalent quantum-mechanical systems in a path-wise manner. The resulting statistical description obeys the Fokker\u2013Planck equation of the probability density of the differential system, which can be readily estimated from simulations of the random paths. Based on the Fokker\u2013Planck formalism, a new derivation of the transient probability densities is presented. 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