Stochastic process

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.In probability theory, a stochastic process, or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process. Instead of dealing with only one possible "reality" of how the process might evolve under time (as is the case, for example, for solutions of an ordinary differential equation), in a stochastic or random process there is some indeterminacy in its future evolution described by probability distributions. This means that even if the initial condition (or starting point) is known, there are many possibilities the process might go to, but some paths are more probable and others less.

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In probability theory, a stochastic process, or sometimes random process, is the counterpart to a deterministic process. Instead of dealing with only one possible "reality" of how the process might evolve under time (as is the case, for example, for solutions of an ordinary differential equation), in a stochastic or random process there is some indeterminacy in its future evolution described by probability distributions. This means that even if the initial condition (or starting point) is known, there are many possibilities the process might go to, but some paths are more probable and others less.