For quadratic functions, I already know that we need to know the vertex, axis of symmetry, x-intercepts, y-intercepts, whether it goes down or up, and whether it has minimum or maximum value.
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In probability theory and statistics, the "'U-quadratic distribution "'is a continuous probability distribution defined by a unique quadratic function with lower limit " a " and upper limit " b ".
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And this reduced problem can be solved analytically : one needs to find a minimum of a one-dimensional quadratic function . k is the negative of the sum over the rest of terms in the equality constraint, which is fixed in each iteration.
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Generally these statistics will be scale invariant ( scaling all the numbers by the same factor does not change the output ), to make them independent of population size, which is achieved by using ratios of homogeneous functions, most simply homogeneous linear or homogeneous quadratic functions.
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These five examples & ndash; Poisson, binomial, negative binomial, normal, and gamma & ndash; are a special subset of NEF, called NEF with quadratic variance function ( NEF-QVF ) because the variance can be written as a quadratic function of the mean.
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The formula for finding roots to these equations are a lot simpler than the quadratic formula; x = ( �t-k ) / s, and for quadratic functions with a non unit coefficient for x 2, my method is simpler than factorizing . " "'
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While most living head-first burrowers are less than in diameter, " Menarana " could have exceeded in diameter, with a cross-sectional area even larger than living burrowers because of an increase in size according to a quadratic function ( the square of the diameter ).
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In the case of the cubic, Tschirnhaus transformations replace the variable by a quadratic function, thereby making it possible to eliminate two terms, and so can be used to eliminate the linear term in a depressed cubic to achieve the solution of the cubic by a combination of square and cube roots.
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In an article from 1925 G . A . Miller pointed out that a slight modification of Lill's method applied to a normed quadratic function yields a circle that allows the geometric construction of the roots of that function and gave the explicit modern definition of what was later to be called Carlyle circle.
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Replacing this simple function with a new, more complex quadratic function, or with a new, more complex linear function on more than two dependent variables, carries a risk : Occam's razor implies that any given complex function is " a priori " less probable than any given simple function.
