Some General Notations and Conventions (Mathematica Tutorial)

The names of built-in functions follow some general guidelines. The main expression or object on which a built-in function acts is usually given as the first argument to the ...

String Patterns (Mathematica Tutorial)

An important feature of string manipulation functions like StringReplace is that they handle not only literal strings but also patterns for collections of strings. This ...

The Main Loop (Mathematica Tutorial)

In any interactive session, Mathematica effectively operates in a loop. It waits for your input, processes the input, prints the result, then goes back to waiting for input ...

Introduction to DatabaseLink (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

Data storage, indexing, and retrieval have long been crucial tasks of many large organizations such as governments, banks, hospitals, and libraries. As human societies have ...

Introduction (Library Link Tutorial)

Most modern computer systems provide ways to collect code into libraries. These libraries are said to be dynamic if they can be loaded into an application at runtime rather ...

Introduction to Web Services (WebServices Tutorial)

The World Wide Web is increasingly being used for communication between applications. The programmatic interfaces made available over the web for application-to-application ...

Real Polynomial Systems (Mathematica Tutorial)

A real polynomial system is an expression constructed with polynomial equations and inequalities combined using logical connectives and quantifiers and

DistributionFitTest (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

DistributionFitTest[data] tests whether data is normally distributed. DistributionFitTest[data, dist] tests whether data is distributed according to dist. ...

EstimatedDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

EstimatedDistribution[data, dist] estimates the parametric distribution dist from data.EstimatedDistribution[data, dist, {{p, p_0}, {q, q_0}, ...}] estimates the parameters ...

Data Formats in Wolfram|Alpha (Mathematica Tutorial)

In addition to its graphical results, Wolfram|Alpha can provide alternative representations that contain additional information or are well suited to particular tasks. These ...