stochastic variable

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a random variable.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

But turnout tends to be far more variable in a midterm election and modeling become far difficult.
Did a Flawed Computer Model Sabotage the Democrats?|Ben Jacobs|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Researchers acknowledged that some unknown variable might be responsible.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: July 27|PunditFact.com|July 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
AirBnB allows for connections: host to guest, guest to city, and any other variable you can think of.
My Life as an Illegal AirBnb Landlord|Anonymous|June 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This uncertainty explains why the forecast, while optimistic, is highly variable.
Diesel Trains May Soon Use Natural Gas Instead|The Daily Beast|May 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Throughout the process the program throws in random changes in a command or variable— these are mutations.
This is What Happens When You Teach Machines the Power of Natural Selection|James Barrat|February 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It is small in cloudy swelling from toxins and drugs, and variable in renal tuberculosis and neoplasms.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Its disadvantage is that it introduces, with the bread, a variable amount of lactic acid and numerous yeast-cells.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Streptococci are arranged side by side, forming chains of variable length (Fig. 114).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
After anchoring the wind was variable and light from the western quarter but during the night there was a heavy swell.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
We have done nothing but sail on with very variable weather, for the last thirteen days.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham