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A stochastic process is a system which evolves in time while undergoing chance fluctuations. The poisson process is a probabilistic model of situations where events occur completely at random at intermittent times, and we wish to study the number of times. Stochastic processes society for industrial and applied. In probability theory and statistics, a continuoustime stochastic process, or a continuousspacetime stochastic process is a stochastic process for which the index variable takes a continuous set of values, as contrasted with a discretetime process for which the index variable takes only distinct values.