estocástico — meaning in English
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English meaning
- random adj Happening or chosen without any particular pattern, plan, or reason.
- stochastic adjective Involving or governed by chance, so that individual outcomes cannot be predicted exactly even though the pattern of outcomes over many trials can be described by probability.
Senses
estocástico is used for these senses in English:
- random (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
- random (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.
- random (informal) Apropos of nothing; lacking context, relevance, or any connection to the previous situation; unexpected.
- stochastic Random, randomly determined.
random — full definition
- adj Happening or chosen without any particular pattern, plan, or reason.
- adj Describes an outcome that can't be predicted in advance, though it may follow known odds.
- adj Informal: odd, unexpected, or unrelated to what came before.
stochastic — full definition
- adjective Involving or governed by chance, so that individual outcomes cannot be predicted exactly even though the pattern of outcomes over many trials can be described by probability.
- adjective Of a computational method: using randomly chosen samples or steps rather than working through every possibility, in order to reach a good answer faster.