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  • 1Stochastic cooling — is a form of particle beam cooling. It is used in some particle accelerators and storage rings to control the emittance of the particle beams in the machine. This process uses the electrical signals that the individual charged particles generate… …

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  • 2Stochastic resonance — (also known as SR) is observed when noise added to a system improves the systems performance in some fashion. More technically, SR occurs if the signal to noise ratio of a nonlinear system or device increases for moderate values of noise… …

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  • 3Stochastic approximation — methods are a family of iterative stochastic optimization algorithms that attempt to find zeroes or extrema of functions which cannot be computed directly, but only estimated via noisy observations. The first, and prototypical, algorithms of this …

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  • 4Stochastic control — is a subfield of control theory which deals with the existence of uncertainty in the data. The designer assumes, in a Bayesian probability driven fashion, that a random noise with known probability distribution affects the state evolution and the …

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  • 5Stochastic drift — In probability theory, stochastic drift is the change of the average value of a stochastic (random) process. A related term is the drift rate which is the rate at which the average changes. This is in contrast to the random fluctuations about… …

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  • 6Stochastic oscillator — The stochastic oscillator is a momentum indicator used in technical analysis, introduced by George Lane in the 1950s, to compare the closing price of a commodity to its price range over a given time span.This indicator is usually calculated… …

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  • 7Stochastic matrix — For a matrix whose elements are stochastic, see Random matrix In mathematics, a stochastic matrix (also termed probability matrix, transition matrix, substitution matrix, or Markov matrix) is a matrix used to describe the transitions of a Markov… …

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  • 8Stochastic Oscillator — A technical momentum indicator that compares a security s closing price to its price range over a given time period. The oscillator s sensitivity to market movements can be reduced by adjusting the time period or by taking a moving average of the …

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  • 9Stochastic electrodynamics — In theoretical physics, Stochastic electrodynamics (SED) refers to a theory which posits that the interaction of elementary particles with the vacuum radiation field, or zero point field, is ultimately responsible for various familiar quantum… …

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  • 10Moving average — For other uses, see Moving average (disambiguation). In statistics, a moving average, also called rolling average, rolling mean or running average, is a type of finite impulse response filter used to analyze a set of data points by creating a… …

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