One can study the dynamics of stochastic chemical kinetics models by simulating the stochastic processes using Monte Carlo methods. For example, they can be [exactly sampled](@ref simulation_intro_jumps) using [Stochastic Simulation Algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillespie_algorithm) (SSAs), which are also often referred to as Gillespie's method. To gain a good understanding of a system's dynamics, one typically has to carry out a large number of jump process simulations to minimize sampling error. To avoid such sampling error, an alternative approach is to solve ODEs for the *full probability distribution* that these processes have a given value at each time. Knowing this distribution, one can then calculate any statistic of interest that can be sampled via running many SSA simulations.
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