What's the difference between aleatory and stochastic?

Aleatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The concordance diagnosis in an aleatory sample of 81 gastric carcinomas stratified according to the participation of 14 hospitals in an epidemiological study of 354 cases and 354 controls was analyzed.
  • (2) All the patients who underwent implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter can have three types of complications: those coming from the own patient, mechanical complications and other aleatory ones.
  • (3) Systolic blood pressure (SBP) was measured by Doppler method in an aleatory sample of 251 healthy children from south-east Santiago Chile (131 females and 120 males) which were divided by age in five groups: 0 to 28 days (n = 5) 1 to 5 months (n = 48), 6 to 11 months (n = 48), 12 to 17 months (n = 46) and 18 to 24 months (n = 45).
  • (4) However, they point out that in standard people, the extreme differences in the morphology of their frontal pneumatization can be explained not only by various causes--a number of which is as yet not known--but also by an aleatory distribution.
  • (5) Beyond this period of time any recovery of normal emptying indices is more aleatory, the residual obstructive syndrome appearing to be established definitely.
  • (6) To carry out this work two well-trained anthropometrists obtained data of total and kneeling height, cephalic and thoracic circumference, and weight from an aleatory sample of 333 boys and girls who study at a national school in Madrid.
  • (7) Each prediction was accompanied by a subjective probability estimate reflecting the subjects' confidence in its accuracy--a measure validated in Study 5 by having subjects choose whether to "gamble" on the accuracy of their prediction or on the outcome of a simple aleatory event.
  • (8) The test of Ishihara has been used in an aleatory representative sample; and dyschromatopsic pupils, so classified in this test, have been further explored with the anomaloscopy Pickford-Nicolson, in order to know their anomaly kind and degree.
  • (9) The study of French Death Rate per age group, compared with either formal, discutable or aleatory indications of transplantation, is a valuable basis for that calculation.
  • (10) The workers were an aleatory bunch, culturally and politically offbeat, mostly would-be musicians, writers or actors, including – yes – a serious-minded young thesp who rocked the phones.
  • (11) We report here one example of such aleatory expression of antibody idiotypes by T lymphocytes.
  • (12) A mathematical analysis attempted to measure the "potential" life span (senescence process) and the degree of a superimposed aleatory destruction (consumption process).
  • (13) After this period, recovery from the obstructive syndrome is more aleatory and decision to continue therapy must be based on other criteria.
  • (14) In most of these studies, aleatory idiotype cross-reactivities have not been sufficiently considered.
  • (15) Samples of water and snails collected through aleatory scoops in a small dam were done to obtain data concerning the physical and chemical characteristics of the water and their possible influence on biological aspects of the life cycle of snails.
  • (16) In comparison with the aleatory selection of the drug, this statistical computerized choice has diminished the recurrence index (from 8 to 3) and increased the interval free of disease (from 70 to 83.5 months) in this group of patients.
  • (17) Immunosuppressive therapeutics (Prednisone and Aziatropine) are valued in 36 limb arteritic patients, divided in two aleatory groups.
  • (18) The lesions have an aleatory character and affect variously organs and territories, leading finally to insufficiency phenomena with clinical expression: renal failure, pulmonary failure, encephalopathy, shock digestive tract, intravascular disseminated coagulation, state of shock initially hyperdynamic and afterwards hypodynamic, metabolic disturbances etc.
  • (19) In order to know the users's degree of satisfaction in the Primary Health Care Center of Zaidin-Sur in Granada, a survey has been carried out by means of a personal interview at home in an aleatory sample of 615 individuals.
  • (20) Review of an aleatory sample composed by 100 patients suffering some thyroid disorder, operated at ENT Department of the Hospital, during the last 5 years.

Stochastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Conjectural; able to conjecture.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We assumed that the sensory messages received at a given level are transformed by a stochastic process, called Alopex, in a way which maximizes responses in central feature analyzers.
  • (2) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (3) The estimation of an expected number of the stochastic effects caused by the internal exposure to ionizing radiation from the administered radionuclides have been performed for the patients according to ICRP recommendations.
  • (4) Methods of analysis for some deterministic and stochastic variants of the integrate-to-threshold neural coding scheme are presented.
  • (5) A stochastic model is presented for the analysis of incomplete repeated-measures experiments.
  • (6) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
  • (7) Stochastic analysis of the bleeding data confirmed that women on the high progestogen doses experienced fewer bleeding episodes than those on the low doses.
  • (8) A mutation from one state into another in such system ('bioids') involves an amplification of different 'kinds of information', as 'stochastic' (noise into dissipative structures), 'molecular' (autocatalysts), and 'stoichimetric' information.
  • (9) Estimators of the model parameters are defined under general exact and stochastic linear constraints.
  • (10) These ideas have been incorporated in a Monte Carlo computer program using Poisson statistics to treat the stochastic nature of the energy deposition processes and thereby determine the excitation and ionization states of the molecule.
  • (11) A comparison of experimental and simulated data indicated that most, but not all, of the fluctuation in the moving means was due to the stochastic variation inherent in the gating process.
  • (12) A stochastic process model developed to fit these data indicated the influence of both time-dependent and instantaneous components of IIF, presumed to be the result of seeding and heterogeneous nucleation, respectively.
  • (13) The mitochondrial data demonstrate that such excesses can be detected from genetic variation at a single locus as well, and this is not due to stochastic error of allele frequency distributions.
  • (14) An airjet perturbation device is attached to the wrist with a special cuff, and provides high-frequency stochastic perturbations in potentially three orthogonal directions.
  • (15) Random parameters in stochastic difference equations are autocorrelated stationary Gaussian processes in the first case.
  • (16) The effective dose-equivalent is being estimated for the evaluation of possible radiation risk by the carcinogenic and mutagenic effectiveness of radiation (stochastic radiation risk) with weighting factors.
  • (17) These findings indicate that for NOs of similar replicative competence, a stochastic mechanism governs the relative usage of each NO for endoreplication and that the relative activity of the two NOs is not stably determined through the mitotic divisions preceding polyploidization.
  • (18) A stochastic model was set up to investigate the predictions of current BMU theory.
  • (19) In the model, stochastic differential equations are numerically integrated to simulate the expected response after treatment with two different agents.
  • (20) It should always be kept in mind that a tree is a statistical result that is affected strongly by the stochastic error of nucleotide substitution and the error intrinsic to the tree construction method itself.

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