stochastic: Meaning and Definition of

sto•chas•tic

Pronunciation: (stu-kas'tik), [key]
— adj. Statistics.
  1. of or pertaining 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.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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