Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In many cases, such as order theory, the inverse of the indicator function may be defined. This is commonly called the generalized Möbius function, as a generalization of the inverse of the indicator function in elementary number theory, the Möbius function. (See paragraph below about the use of the inverse in classical recursion theory.)
Indicator function – Mathematical function characterizing set membership; Linear discriminant function – Method used in statistics, pattern recognition, and other fields; Multicollinearity – Linear dependency situation in a regression model; One-hot – Bit-vector representation where only one bit can be set at a time
Such indicators have some special properties. For example, the following statements are all true for an indicator function that is trigonometrically convex at least on an interval (,): [1]: 55–57 [2]: 54–61
Example [ edit ] If S is the set of natural numbers N {\displaystyle \mathbb {N} } , and T is some subset of the natural numbers, then the indicator vector is naturally a single point in the Cantor space : that is, an infinite sequence of 1's and 0's, indicating membership, or lack thereof, in T .
In mathematics, the Dirichlet function [1] [2] is the indicator function of the set of rational numbers, i.e. () = if x is a rational number and () = if x is not a rational number (i.e. is an irrational number).
A common example of a sigmoid function is the logistic function, ... Step function – Linear combination of indicator functions of real intervals;
This function is real-valued because it corresponds to a random variable that is symmetric around the origin; however characteristic functions may generally be complex-valued. In probability theory and statistics, the characteristic function of any real-valued random variable completely defines its probability distribution.
In mathematics, a function on the real numbers is called a step function if it can be written as a finite linear combination of indicator functions of intervals. Informally speaking, a step function is a piecewise constant function having only finitely many pieces. An example of step functions (the red graph).