This is a little one but partly to cover my love of words like this. For MH\/therapy purposes it probably just means “random”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Binomial distribution<\/a> 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!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n None really!<\/p>\n\n\n\n First created 23.xi.23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a little one but partly to cover my love of words like this. For MH\/therapy purposes it probably just means “random”. Details 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 … Continue reading Stochastic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-3667","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":202,"total_views":"659","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/3667\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Distribution<\/a>
Gaussian distribution<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nChapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n