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stochastic
[ stuh-kas-tik ]
adjective
- of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
stochastic
/ stɒˈkæstɪk /
adjective
- statistics
- (of a random variable) having a probability distribution, usually with finite variance
- (of a process) involving a random variable the successive values of which are not independent
- (of a matrix) square with non-negative elements that add to unity in each row
- rare.involving conjecture
stochastic
/ stō-kăs′tĭk /
- Involving or containing a random variable or variables.
- Involving chance or probability.
Derived Forms
- stoˈchastically, adverb
Other Words From
- sto·chasti·cal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of stochastic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of stochastic1
Example Sentences
However, Mikaitis and his colleagues have devised a method to simulate stochastic rounding in these computers by combining the round-to-nearest method with three other types of rounding.
From a mathematical point of view, it’s using probabilistic logic and bringing in a lot of statistics and stochastic reasoning and so on.
About ten years after Manabe, Hasselmann created a stochastic weather model, meaning a model that accounts for chance.
A few years later, Vempala and Yin-Tat Lee of the University of Washington refined Eldan’s stochastic localization to lower the KLS factor even further, to the fourth root of the dimension.
Periodically over the next few years, some idea for how to modify stochastic localization would pop into his head and he would ponder it for a few hours before giving up.
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