This is a little one but partly to cover my love of words like this. For MH/therapy purposes it probably just means “random”.
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In statistics it can be a bit more formal. A something, typically a set of data or a process that generates data, e.g. whether clients arrive on time (including early) or late for appointments, or the scores of multiple clients’ answers to a questionnaire at first contact, are “stochastic” if they are well described by, if they fit, some statistical distribution at distribution. The first might fit a binomial distribution (or not), the second might fit a Gaussian distribution (but probably doesn’t).
The other meaning applies to a process: it is stochastic if it is random. Tossing a fair coin or throwing a fair die are stochastic (well, almost).
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Binomial distribution
Distribution
Gaussian distribution
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I am sure I wanted to squeeze it into the book somewhere as it has a lovely ring to it and I think it makes me sound very wise when I use words like this but I’m sure Jo-anne stopped it getting into the book and quite rightly so. (So this is revenge!)
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None really!
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First created 23.xi.23.
