ABSTRACT
Having introduced elementary statistical and relational concepts in Chapter 1 and discussed corresponding notions of structure in Chapter 2, this chapter deals with some possibilities to conceptualize processes. The first section is concerned with a distinction between historical processes and process frames that are used to define repeatable processes. The second section deals with schematic process frames that are based on explicitly defined time axes, in particular time series and statistical processes. The third section explains a notion of stochastic process frames that will be used in later chapters for the discussion of stochastic models.
