Tan (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Tan[z] gives the tangent of z.

Quasi-Newton Methods (Mathematica Tutorial)

There are many variants of quasi-Newton methods. In all of them, the idea is to base the matrix B_k in the quadratic model on an approximation of the Hessian matrix built up ...

VectorPlot (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VectorPlot[{v_x, v_y}, {x, x_min, x_max}, {y, y_min, y_max}] generates a vector plot of the vector field {v_x, v_y} as a function of x and y. VectorPlot[{{v_x, v_y}, {w_x, ...

FindMaximum (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

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

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 ...

ParallelTable (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ParallelTable[expr, {i_max}] generates in parallel a list of i_max copies of expr.ParallelTable[expr, {i, i_max}] generates in parallel a list of the values of expr when i ...

VarianceEquivalenceTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

VarianceEquivalenceTest[{data_1, data_2, ...}] tests whether the variances of the data_i are equal. VarianceEquivalenceTest[{data_1, ...}, " property"] returns the value of " ...

ZipfDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

ZipfDistribution[\[Rho]] represents a zeta distribution with parameter \[Rho].ZipfDistribution[n, \[Rho]] represents a Zipf distribution with range n.

Continuous Distributions (Mathematica Tutorial)

The functions described here are among the most commonly used continuous univariate statistical distributions. You can compute their densities, means, variances, and other ...

NIntegrate Introduction (Mathematica Tutorial)

The Mathematica function NIntegrate is a general numerical integrator. It can handle a wide range of one-dimensional and multidimensional integrals. Finding a numerical ...