quadratic form (English, noun)
expansion: quadratic form (plural quadratic forms)
Senses:
topics: algebra
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A homogeneous polynomial of degree 2 in a given number of variables.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: multivariate statistics
glosses: A scalar quantity of the form εᵀΛε, where ε is a vector of n random variables, and Λ is an n-dimensional symmetric matrix.
Forms:
form: quadratic forms
tags: plural