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stochastic processes

stochastic processes is the plural of stochastic process.

Meaning of stochastic process

Noun

stochastic process (plural stochastic processes)

  1. A function that maps elements of an index set to elements of a collection of random variables; historically, a collection of random variables indexed by a set of numbers usually regarded as points in time.
    • A stochastic process #92;#123;#92;zeta#95;t#92;#125; is a family of random variables that depends on a parameter t, usually called time.[…]Two important properties stochastic processes may have are given in the following definition.1994, Andrzej Lasota, Michael C. Mackey, Chaos, Fractals, and Noise: Stochastic Aspects of Dynamics, 2nd edition, Springer, page 254

Questions about stochastic processes

What is stochastic processes the plural of?
Stochastic processes is the plural of stochastic process.

Words near stochastic processes in the dictionary

  1. stochastic matrices
  2. stochastic matrix
  3. stochastic parrot
  4. stochastic parrots
  5. stochastic process
  6. stochastic processes
  7. stochastic terror
  8. stochastic terrorism
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  10. stochastic terrorists
  11. stochastical

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