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===Index set=== The set <math>T</math> is called the '''index set'''<ref name="Parzen1999"/><ref name="Florescu2014page294"/> or '''parameter set'''<ref name="Lamperti1977page1"/><ref name="Skorokhod2005page93">{{cite book|author=Valeriy Skorokhod|title=Basic Principles and Applications of Probability Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQkYMjRK3fYC|year=2005|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-26312-8|pages=93, 94}}</ref> of the stochastic process. Often this set is some subset of the [[real line]], such as the [[natural numbers]] or an interval, giving the set <math>T</math> the interpretation of time.<ref name="doob1953stochasticP46to47"/> In addition to these sets, the index set <math>T</math> can be another set with a [[total order]] or a more general set,<ref name="doob1953stochasticP46to47"/><ref name="Billingsley2008page482">{{cite book|author=Patrick Billingsley|title=Probability and Measure|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QyXqOXyxEeIC|year=2008|publisher=Wiley India Pvt. Limited|isbn=978-81-265-1771-8|page=482}}</ref> such as the Cartesian plane <math>\mathbb{R}^2</math> or <math>n</math>-dimensional Euclidean space, where an element <math>t\in T</math> can represent a point in space.<ref name="KarlinTaylor2012page27">{{cite book|author1=Samuel Karlin|author2=Howard E. Taylor|title=A First Course in Stochastic Processes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dSDxjX9nmmMC|year=2012|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-08-057041-9|page=27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Donald L. Snyder|author2=Michael I. Miller|title=Random Point Processes in Time and Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c_3UBwAAQBAJ|year=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4612-3166-0|page=25}}</ref> That said, many results and theorems are only possible for stochastic processes with a totally ordered index set.<ref name="Skorokhod2005page104">{{cite book|author=Valeriy Skorokhod|title=Basic Principles and Applications of Probability Theory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQkYMjRK3fYC|year=2005|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-3-540-26312-8|page=104}}</ref>
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