[FRIAM] random v stochastic v indeterminate

[Nick Thompson]

Thanks, Glen, 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ?
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 11:48 AM
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Maybe you're looking for the term "Markovian"?  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MarkovProcess.html

On 08/09/2017 07:47 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> First.  I had always supposed that a stochastic process was one whose 
> value was determined by two factors, a random factor AND it's last 
> value.  So the next step in a random walk is "random" but the current 
> value (it's present position on a surface, say) is "the result of a 
> stochastic process."  From your responses, and from a short rummage in 
> Wikipedia, I still can't tell if I am correct or not.

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☣ glen

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