characteristic function (English, noun)
expansion: characteristic function (plural characteristic functions)
Senses:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function which is equal to 1 for all points in its domain which belong to a given set, and is equal to 0 for all points in the domain which do not belong to that given set.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable
Forms:
form: characteristic functions
tags: plural