In mathematics, a piecewise-defined function (also called a piecewise function, a hybrid function, or definition by cases) is a function whose domain...
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piecewise linear or segmented function is a real-valued function of a real variable, whose graph is composed of straight-line segments. A piecewise linear...
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Step function (redirect from Piecewise constant)
indicator functions of intervals. Informally speaking, a step function is a piecewise constant function having only finitely many pieces. A function f : R →...
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Spline (mathematics) (redirect from Piecewise polynomial curve)
In mathematics, a spline is a function defined piecewise by polynomials. In interpolating problems, spline interpolation is often preferred to polynomial...
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A piecewise-constant valuation is a kind of a function that represents the utility of an agent over a continuous resource, such as land. It occurs when...
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In mathematics, a piecewise linear manifold (PL manifold) is a topological manifold together with a piecewise linear structure on it. Such a structure...
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Piecewise linear may refer to: Piecewise linear curve, a connected sequence of line segments Piecewise linear function, a function whose domain can be...
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In mathematics, piecewise syndeticity is a notion of largeness of subsets of the natural numbers. A set S ⊂ N {\displaystyle S\subset \mathbb {N} } is...
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On the other hand, some authors replace "piecewise linear" with "piecewise quadratic" or even "piecewise polynomial". The author might then say "higher...
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In probability theory, a piecewise-deterministic Markov process (PDMP) is a process whose behaviour is governed by random jumps at points in time, but...
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rising from 0 to 1, but using simpler functions, especially piecewise linear functions or piecewise constant functions. These are preferred where speed of...
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Segmented regression (redirect from Piecewise regression)
Segmented regression, also known as piecewise regression or broken-stick regression, is a method in regression analysis in which the independent variable...
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Triangulation (topology) (redirect from Piecewise-linear triangulation)
mathematics, triangulation describes the replacement of topological spaces by piecewise linear spaces, i.e. the choice of a homeomorphism in a suitable simplicial...
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PDIFF (redirect from Piecewise-smooth manifold)
geometric topology, PDIFF, for piecewise differentiable, is the category of piecewise-smooth manifolds and piecewise-smooth maps between them. It properly...
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function is called a spline. For instance, the natural cubic spline is piecewise cubic and twice continuously differentiable. Furthermore, its second derivative...
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mean signal is piecewise constant. For this reason, step detection can be profitably viewed as the problem of recovering a piecewise constant signal...
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Polygonal chain (redirect from Piecewise linear curve)
that can be partitioned into exactly two monotone chains. The graphs of piecewise linear functions form monotone chains with respect to a horizontal line...
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Collapse (topology) (redirect from Piecewise-linear collapse)
collapsible. Any n-dimensional PL manifold that is collapsible is in fact piecewise-linearly isomorphic to an n-ball. Discrete Morse theory Shelling (topology) –...
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a , b ] → R 2 {\displaystyle \gamma :[a,b]\to \mathbb {R} ^{2}} be a piecewise smooth Jordan plane curve. The Jordan curve theorem implies that γ {\displaystyle...
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In mathematics, a piecewise algebraic space is a generalization of a semialgebraic set, introduced by Maxim Kontsevich and Yan Soibelman. The motivation...
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List of cohomology theories (redirect from Piecewise linear cobordism)
Coefficient ring: The definition is similar to cobordism, except that one uses piecewise linear or topological instead of smooth manifolds, either oriented or...
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a set of data points (x0, y0), (x1, y1), ..., (xn, yn) is defined as piecewise linear, resulting from the concatenation of linear segment interpolants...
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Simplifying a piecewise linear curve with the Douglas–Peucker algorithm....
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with specialized computer programs or estimation techniques such as the piecewise-linear model. Circuit simulation software, such as HSPICE (an analog circuit...
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Simplicial continuation, or piecewise linear continuation (Allgower and Georg), is a one-parameter continuation method which is well suited to small to...
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+\lambda \nabla ^{2})f-\delta f{\bar {f}}dx} . By discretizing this onto piecewise-constant elements with our signal on the vertices we obtain ∑ i M i δ...
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In mathematics, some functions or groups of functions are important enough to deserve their own names. This is a listing of articles which explain some...
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In the context of artificial neural networks, the rectifier or ReLU (rectified linear unit) activation function is an activation function defined as the...
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In statistics and information theory, a maximum entropy probability distribution has entropy that is at least as great as that of all other members of...
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Figure 1, and x Z O H ( t ) {\displaystyle x_{\mathrm {ZOH} }(t)} is the piecewise-constant signal depicted in Figure 2. The equation above for the output...
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