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The term stochastic process first appeared in English in a 1934 paper by Joseph L. Doob. [1] For the term and a specific mathematical definition, Doob cited another 1934 paper, where the term stochastischer Prozeß was used in German by Aleksandr Khinchin, [22] [23] though the German term had been used earlier in 1931 by Andrey Kolmogorov. [24]
The definition of a stochastic process varies, [67] but a stochastic process is traditionally defined as a collection of random variables indexed by some set. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The terms random process and stochastic process are considered synonyms and are used interchangeably, without the index set being precisely specified.
Stochastic computing is a collection of techniques that represent continuous values by streams of random bits. Complex computations can then be computed by simple bit-wise operations on the streams. Complex computations can then be computed by simple bit-wise operations on the streams.
If a stochastic process is strict-sense stationary and has finite second moments, it is wide-sense stationary. [2]: p. 299 If two stochastic processes are jointly (M + N)-th-order stationary, this does not guarantee that the individual processes are M-th- respectively N-th-order stationary. [1]: p. 159
A random variable (also called random quantity, aleatory variable, or stochastic variable) is a mathematical formalization of a quantity or object which depends on random events. [1] The term 'random variable' in its mathematical definition refers to neither randomness nor variability [ 2 ] but instead is a mathematical function in which
A stochastic program is an optimization problem in which some or all problem parameters are uncertain, but follow known probability distributions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This framework contrasts with deterministic optimization, in which all problem parameters are assumed to be known exactly.
Stochastic dominance (already mentioned above), denoted , means that, for every possible outcome x, the probability that yields at least x is at least as large as the probability that yields at least x: for all x, [] [].
In probability theory, a martingale is a sequence of random variables (i.e., a stochastic process) for which, at a particular time, the conditional expectation of the next value in the sequence is equal to the present value, regardless of all prior values.