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  2. Risk aversion - Wikipedia

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    Based on both the von Neumann-Morgenstern and Nash Game Theory model, a risk-averse person will happily receive a smaller commodity share of the bargain. [22] This is because their utility function concaves hence their utility increases at a decreasing rate while their non-risk averse opponents may increase at a constant or increasing rate. [23]

  3. Absolutely and completely monotonic functions and sequences

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    A function that is absolutely monotonic on [,) can be extended to a function that is not only analytic on the real line but is even the restriction of an entire function to the real line. The big Bernshtein theorem : A function f ( x ) {\displaystyle f(x)} that is absolutely monotonic on ( − ∞ , 0 ] {\displaystyle (-\infty ,0]} can be ...

  4. Schwartz space - Wikipedia

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    A function in the Schwartz space is sometimes called a Schwartz function. A two-dimensional Gaussian function is an example of a rapidly decreasing function. Schwartz space is named after French mathematician Laurent Schwartz.

  5. Diminishing returns - Wikipedia

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    The point of diminishing returns can be realised, by use of the second derivative in the above production function. Which can be simplified to: Q= f(L,K). This signifies that output (Q) is dependent on a function of all variable (L) and fixed (K) inputs in the production process. This is the basis to understand.

  6. Real analysis - Wikipedia

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    Real analysis is an area of analysis that studies concepts such as sequences and their limits, continuity, differentiation, integration and sequences of functions. By definition, real analysis focuses on the real numbers, often including positive and negative infinity to form the extended real line.

  7. Pathological (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Test functions in real analysis and distribution theory, which are infinitely differentiable functions on the real line that are 0 everywhere outside of a given limited interval. An example of such a function is the test function, φ ( t ) = { e − 1 / ( 1 − t 2 ) , − 1 < t < 1 , 0 , otherwise . {\displaystyle \varphi (t)={\begin{cases}e ...

  8. Concave function - Wikipedia

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    A function f is concave over a convex set if and only if the function −f is a convex function over the set. The sum of two concave functions is itself concave and so is the pointwise minimum of two concave functions, i.e. the set of concave functions on a given domain form a semifield.

  9. Logistic function - Wikipedia

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    The standard logistic function is the logistic function with parameters =, =, =, which yields = + = + = / / + /.In practice, due to the nature of the exponential function, it is often sufficient to compute the standard logistic function for over a small range of real numbers, such as a range contained in [−6, +6], as it quickly converges very close to its saturation values of 0 and 1.