stochastically
- adverb
- /stəˈkæstɪkli/
- Specialized
:
estocásticamente
- The weather changes stochastically, making it hard to predict the rain even a day in advance.
- stochastically formed connections
- stochastically formed
Examples
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Contrary to the static picture portrayed by DCF analysis, the returns from an investment in information systems evolve over time stochastically.
Academic text (1991) -
The Bayesian treed algorithm, guided by prior distributions, searches stochastically for good classification trees (Chipman et al. 2002).
Academic text (2010) -
Cointegration, therefore, is the natural test for market integration of stochastically varying prices.
Academic text (1993) -
These are fully autonomous persona programs, operating stochastically in your private sire world.
Fiction book (1994) -
Fires that spread in the simulation can either burn out stochastically or be forced to stop by the randomly drawn fire size.
Academic text (2011) -
The simulations are repeated five times with different stochastically generated particle profiles at the mouth inlets.
Academic text (2017) -
In Mplus, the growth mixture model stochastically classifies subjects to a pre-specified number of unobserved classes according to growth trajectories and covariate effects.
Academic text (2010) -
Axons randomly grew across the cortical sheet and stochastically formed synaptic connections (similar to, e.g., 49; also see 46).
Academic text (2018) -
We used the MICE procedure in R (van Buuren & Groothuis-Oudshoorn, in press) to stochastically impute missing values (16% of all 576 possible data points were missing and thus imputed) and create 30 different versions of the complete data.
Academic text (2011) -
Finally, differences in how insurance company liabilities arise (stochastically) relative to how BHC liabilities arise (relatively stable over time) provide the third distinction between the two industries that makes this study a contribution to our knowledge about TPS and regulatory spillover in general.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
126
2.4
In a way that has no clear plan or order
44
2.7
By chance, without any plan or order
27
5.5
In a way that has no clear reason or plan
13
6.4
In a way that is not regular or easy to predict
9
6.1
In a way that is not planned or organized
4
4.8
In a way you cannot guess before it happens
1
9.0
In a way that uses chance to make some results more likely
How Random
1
5.6
126
2.4
- Specialized
31
3.4
- Specialized
1
7.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
stochastically = stochastic (transparent) = stochastic + ly
The adverb is a regular -ly derivative of the adjective 'stochastic', so its meaning is directly 'in a stochastic manner'.
Etymology
The word stochastically comes from a Greek root stochast- meaning 'to aim' or 'to guess'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine making many small 'shots' or guesses at a target, so doing something stochastically means it happens by chance or through random guessing rather than in a fixed, certain way.