stochastic process vs random walk

stochastic process and random walk both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stochastic process	Yes	No	No	No
random walk	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, random walk is a hyponym of stochastic process; that is, random walk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stochastic process:

stochastic process: a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)
random walk: a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance

Other hyponyms of stochastic process include Markoff process, Markov process, stationary stochastic process.

stochastic process (noun)	random walk (noun)
a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)	a stochastic process consisting of a sequence of changes each of whose characteristics (as magnitude or direction) is determined by chance

stochastic process vs random walk

stochastic process and random walk both are nouns.

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