deterministic

Psychology

(adjective)

Having each state depend only on the immediately previous state, as opposed to having some states depend on backtracking where there may be multiple possible next actions

Calculus

(adjective)

having exactly predictable time evolution

Related Terms

  • divergence

Examples of deterministic in the following topics:

  • Functions of Several Variables

    • Multivariable calculus can be applied to analyze deterministic systems that have multiple degrees of freedom.
    • Multivariable calculus is used in many fields of natural and social science and engineering to model and study high-dimensional systems that exhibit deterministic behavior.
    • Non-deterministic, or stochastic, systems can be studied using a different kind of mathematics, such as stochastic calculus.
  • Chance Processes

    • It is the probabilistic counterpart to a deterministic process (or deterministic system).
    • One approach to stochastic processes treats them as functions of one or several deterministic arguments (inputs, in most cases regarded as time) whose values (outputs) are random variables.
    • Random variables are non-deterministic (single) quantities which have certain probability distributions.
  • Biological Effects of Radiation

    • Other conditions, such as radiation burns, acute radiation syndrome, chronic radiation syndrome, and radiation-induced thyroiditis are deterministic, meaning they reliably occur above a threshold dose and their severity increases with dose.
    • Deterministic effects are not necessarily more or less serious than stochastic effects; either can ultimately lead to damage ranging from a temporary nuisance to death.
  • Ogburn's Theory

    • Hard determinists view technology as developing independent from social concerns.
    • Soft determinists still subscribe to the fact that technology is the guiding force in our evolution, but maintain that we have a chance to make decisions regarding the outcomes of a situation.
  • Summary

    • There are two main reasons for the interest in applying statistics to what was, originally, deterministic graph theory from mathematics.
  • Indeterminacy and Probability Distribution Maps

    • The values of an observable will be obtained non-deterministically in accordance with a probability distribution uniquely determined by the system state.
    • Newton's laws are deterministic.
  • Introduction: Applying statistical tools to network data

    • Statistics provide useful tools for summarizing large amounts of information, and for treating observations as stochastic, rather than deterministic outcomes of social processes.
  • Evaluating the Biological Perspective on Personality

    • This method can also be deterministic.
  • Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality

    • This view gives the conscious human being some necessary autonomy and frees him/her from deterministic principles.
  • Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem

    • The classical central limit theorem describes the size and the distributional form of the stochastic fluctuations around the deterministic number $\mu$ during this convergence.
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