FindMinimum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FindMinimum[f, x] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from an automatically selected point.FindMinimum[f, {x, x_0}] searches for a local minimum in f, starting from ...

HistogramDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

HistogramDistribution[{x_1, x_2, ...}] represents the probability distribution corresponding to a histogram of the data values x_i.HistogramDistribution[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, ...

SmoothKernelDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

SmoothKernelDistribution[{x_1, x_2, ...}] represents a smooth kernel distribution based on the data values x_i.SmoothKernelDistribution[{{x_1, y_1, ...}, {x_2, y_2, ...}, ...

DirichletDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DirichletDistribution[{\[Alpha]_1, ..., \[Alpha] k +1}] represents a Dirichlet distribution of dimension k with shape parameters \[Alpha]_i.

DiscreteUniformDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DiscreteUniformDistribution[{i_min, i_max}] represents a discrete uniform distribution over the integers from i_min to i_max.DiscreteUniformDistribution[{{i_min, i_max}, ...

FinancialData (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

FinancialData["name"] gives the last known price or value for the financial entity specified by " name".FinancialData["name", start] gives a list of dates and daily closing ...

ParameterMixtureDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ParameterMixtureDistribution[dist[\[Theta]], \[Theta] \[Distributed] wdist] represents a parameter mixture distribution where the parameter \[Theta] is distributed according ...

UniformDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

UniformDistribution[{min, max}] represents a continuous uniform statistical distribution giving values between min and max. UniformDistribution[] represents a uniform ...

Summary of New Features in Mathematica 8 (Mathematica Guide)

RiccatiSolve (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RiccatiSolve[{a, b}, {q, r}] gives the matrix x that is the stabilizing solution of the continuous algebraic Riccati equation ConjugateTranspose[a].x + x.a - ...