Stochastic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stochastic \Sto*chas"tic\ (st[-o]*k[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Gr.
     stochastiko`s, from stocha`zesqai to aim, to guess, fr.
     sto`chos mark or aim.]
     1. Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] --Whitefoot.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. random; chance; involving probability; opposite of
        {deterministic}.
        [GG]
  
     3. (Statistics) of or pertaining to a process in which a
        series of calculations, selections, or observations are
        made, each one being randomly determined as a sample from
        a probability distribution.
  
     Note: Where physical phenomena are modelled as a stochastic
           process, each subsequent calculation of a series may
           depend on the result of the previous calculation, as in
           the modelling of the process of diffusion of molecules.
           Many series may be calculated, and the results
           averaged, to estimate the most likely result. See also
           {Markov chain}.
           [PJC] -- {sto*chas"tic*al*ly}, adv.
           [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stochastic
       adj : being or having a random variable; "a stochastic variable";
             "stochastic processes"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "stochastic":
     aimless, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry,
     broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, chaotic, confused,
     designless, disordered, driftless, dysteleological, foggy, fuzzy,
     general, haphazard, hazy, hit-or-miss, ill-defined, imprecise,
     inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable,
     indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indiscriminate,
     indistinct, inexact, inexplicable, lax, loose, mindless,
     nonspecific, obscure, orderless, promiscuous, purposeless, random,
     shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stray, sweeping, unaccountable,
     unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undirected,
     unmotivated, unplain, unspecified, vague, veiled
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  stochastic
       
          {probabilistic}