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Gaussian
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gaussian
English
Alternative forms
en Gaußian
Etymology
en :af Gauss -ian + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡaʊ.si.ən/
en en-us-gaussian.ogg US
Adjective
en eponyms en mathematics Of or pertaining to en Carl Friedrich Gauss.
en 2016 N B Chakrabarti A Note on a Sum of Lognormals arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.07300 The problem of inversion of the mgf/chf of a sum of lognormals to obtain the CDF/pdf is considered with special reference to methods related to Post Widder technique, Gaussian quadrature and the Fourier series method.
en statistics Normal.
en 2015-09-11 Hotspots of Malaria Transmission in the Peruvian Amazon: Rapid Assessment through a Parasitological and Serological Survey PLOS ONE http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137458 10.1371/journal.pone.0137458 The criterion for positivity was determined for each antigen of each species applying a mixture model to the PP data which assumed two inherent Gaussian distributions: a narrow distribution or seronegatives, and a broader distribution of seropositives.
Derived terms
en Gaussian beam Gaussian curvature Gaussian curve Gaussian distribution Gaussian elimination Gaussian function Gaussian integer Gaussianity Gaussianization Gaussianize Gaussian moat Gaussian prime non-Gaussian sub-Gaussian
Translations
Gaussian
Catalan: ca gaussià
Czech: cs gaussovský
Danish: da gaussisk
Esperanto: eo gaŭsa
French: fr gaussien
German: de Gaußsch
Italian: it gaussiano m, it gaussiana f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb gaussisk
Nynorsk: nn gaussisk
Polish: pl gaussowski
Portuguese: pt gaussiano m, pt gaussiana f
Spanish: es gaussiano
See also
en Bayesian Laplacean,Laplacian
Noun
en Functions en maths en Gaussian function.
en 2016 Keaton Hamm; Jeff Ledford Regular Families of Kernels for Nonlinear Approximation arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06676 These conditions provide a framework which encompasses some notable approximation kernels including splines, so-called cardinal functions, and many radial basis functions such as the Gaussians and general multiquadrics.
en statistics The normal distribution.
en computer graphics A holographic element, a fuzzy volume of a specified shape with view-direction dependent coloration.
en pixel voxel hogel
Derived terms
en Gaussian splat