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  2. Elasticity of a function - Wikipedia

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    An example of semi-elasticity is modified duration in bond trading. The opposite definition is sometimes used in the literature. That is, the term "semi-elasticity" is also sometimes used for the change (not percentage-wise) in f(x) in terms of a percentage change in x [9] which would be

  3. Variance - Wikipedia

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    Firstly, if the true population mean is unknown, then the sample variance (which uses the sample mean in place of the true mean) is a biased estimator: it underestimates the variance by a factor of (n − 1) / n; correcting this factor, resulting in the sum of squared deviations about the sample mean divided by n-1 instead of n, is called ...

  4. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    The term was coined when variables began to be used for sets and mathematical structures. onto A function (which in mathematics is generally defined as mapping the elements of one set A to elements of another B) is called "A onto B" (instead of "A to B" or "A into B") only if it is surjective; it may even be said that "f is onto" (i. e ...

  5. Elasticity - Wikipedia

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    Elasticity (economics), a general term for a ratio of change. For more specific economic forms of elasticity, see: Cross elasticity of demand; Elasticity of substitution; Frisch elasticity of labor supply; Income elasticity of demand; Output elasticity; Price elasticity of demand; Price elasticity of supply; Yield elasticity of bond value

  6. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    Also confidence coefficient. A number indicating the probability that the confidence interval (range) captures the true population mean. For example, a confidence interval with a 95% confidence level has a 95% chance of capturing the population mean. Technically, this means that, if the experiment were repeated many times, 95% of the CIs computed at this level would contain the true population ...

  7. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    H.M. – harmonic mean. HOL – higher-order logic. Hom – Hom functor. hom – hom-class. hot – higher order term. HOTPO – half or triple plus one. hvc – havercosine function. (Also written as havercos.) hyp – hypograph of a function.

  8. Variational principle - Wikipedia

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    The Rayleigh–Ritz method for solving boundary-value problems in elasticity and wave propagation; Fermat's principle in geometrical optics; Hamilton's principle in classical mechanics; Maupertuis' principle in classical mechanics; The principle of least action in mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and quantum mechanics; The variational method ...

  9. Variance function - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, the variance function is a smooth function that depicts the variance of a random quantity as a function of its mean.The variance function is a measure of heteroscedasticity and plays a large role in many settings of statistical modelling.