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WHAT IS STOCHASTICISM ANYWAY? THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF POLICY MAKING AND ALL THAT
  1. John R Ashton,
  2. Carlos Alvarez-Dardet
  1. Joint Editors

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.57.7.473

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      • ↵* The definition according to the Oxford English Dictionary at http://www.oed.com/ is: Stochastic (adjective). Randomly determined; that follows some random probability distribution or pattern, so that behaviour may be analysed statistically but not predicted precisely.

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