Piecewise (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Piecewise[{{val_1, cond_1}, {val_2, cond_2}, ...}] represents a piecewise function with values val_i in the regions defined by the conditions cond_i. Piecewise[{{val_1, ...

Equations in One Variable (Mathematica Tutorial)

The main equations that Solve and related Mathematica functions deal with are polynomial equations. It is easy to solve a linear equation in x. One can also solve quadratic ...

Elliptic Integrals and Elliptic ... (Mathematica Tutorial)

Even more so than for other special functions, you need to be very careful about the arguments you give to elliptic integrals and elliptic functions. There are several ...

Bias (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

Bias is an option to RationalInterpolation, GeneralRationalInterpolation, MiniMaxApproximation, and GeneralMiniMaxApproximation that specifies the bias to apply when ...

Brake (Function Approximations Package Symbol)

Brake is an option to MiniMaxApproximation and GeneralMiniMaxApproximation that specifies how changes from one iteration to the next are to be restricted.

Nonparametric Statistical Distributions (Mathematica Guide)

When building an initial statistical model, you may not have a good idea of what parametric distribution family it should come from. Nonparametric distributions make very few ...

Constants (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Constants is an option for Dt which gives a list of objects to be taken as constants.

Function Approximations Package (Function Approximations Package Tutorial)

This loads the package. Economized rational approximations. A Pad é approximation is very accurate near the center of expansion, but the error increases rapidly as you get ...

Work with Differential Equations (Mathematica How To)

These "How tos" give step-by-step instructions for common tasks related to solving differential equations in Mathematica .

Unconstrained Optimization (Mathematica Overview)

Introduction Methods for Local Minimization Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations