Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
polynomial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Alg.) Same as
polynomial .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics
polynomial - noun mathematics
polynomial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the character of a polynomial
- noun a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms
Etymologies
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Examples
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These developments, now called the multinomial logit model and the random utility model for choice behavior, have turned out to be widely useful in economics and other social sciences.
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But of course the variations within England DO take account of variations, albeit imperfectly, and the question we should probably be asking rather than: "How far from £7,362 are we? would be "How does the above list vary from the amount that might be generated by the huge multinomial equation accounting for these and other pertinent factors?
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Effects of ethnic/racial diversity among students and faculty on cognitive growth of undergraduate students are estimated via a series of hierarchical linear and multinomial logistic regression models.
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McFadden used it to develop his own multinomial logit model, a mathematical formula that assigns preference values to discrete choices for calculating the probability of each choice cf. discrete sets.
Korea University: Daniel McFadden's Lecture Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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Demonstrations of general theorems; contracted method of division and of finding the highest common divisor of polynominals; theory of indices and radicals; discussion of equations; mathematical infinity, infinitesimals and indeterminate quantities; summation and interpolation of series; theory of logarithms; binomial, multinomial and exponential theorems; theory of probabilities general theory and solution of equations of the higher orders; symbolical representation and properties of numbers; different systems of notation, etc., constituting the philosophy of Arithmetic.
A Catalogue of the Officers and Students of The Furman University, for 1860-'61 Furman University 1861
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I (x) of the archetype's text (message x) is The expression on the right is the logarithm of the multinomial probability of the particular set of numbers
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles John L. Cisne et al. 2010
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Sampling error was estimated assuming a multinomial distribution (not shown) and indicated that estimates of relative abundance are accurate +/− 5% for dominant organisms given the number of Sanger reads obtained, and +/− 1% for pyrosequencing reads.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010
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Here we use the EM algorithm to obtain the maximum likelihood estimate of multinomial random variables with probabilities.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ning Li et al. 2010
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Originally Posted by abhi@007 hey puys can u give me the rough idea of a multinomial theorem
unknown title 2009
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Re: official quant thread for CAT 2009Re: official quant thread for CAT 2009hey puys can u give me the rough idea of a multinomial theoremRe: official quant thread for CAT 2009Re: official quant thread for CAT 2009
unknown title 2009
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