IVPs with Piecewise Coefficients (Mathematica Tutorial)

The differential equations that arise in modern applications often have discontinuous coefficients. DSolve can handle a wide variety of such ODEs with piecewise coefficients. ...

BetaPrimeDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

BetaPrimeDistribution[p, q] represents a beta prime distribution with shape parameters p and q. BetaPrimeDistribution[p, q, \[Beta]] represents a generalized beta prime ...

NoncentralChiSquareDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

NoncentralChiSquareDistribution[\[Nu], \[Lambda]] represents a noncentral \[Chi]^2 distribution with \[Nu] degrees of freedom and noncentrality parameter \[Lambda].

Column Structure (DatabaseLink Tutorial)

This section discusses commands that get information about database columns. If you find that the examples in this section do not work as shown, you may need to install or ...

LevyDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

LevyDistribution[\[Mu], \[Sigma]] represents a Lévy distribution with location parameter \[Mu] and dispersion parameter \[Sigma].

RootApproximant (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

RootApproximant[x] converts the number x to one of the "simplest" algebraic numbers that approximates it well.RootApproximant[x, n] finds an algebraic number of degree at ...

GompertzMakehamDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

GompertzMakehamDistribution[\[Lambda], \[Xi]] represents a Gompertz distribution with scale parameter \[Lambda] and frailty parameter ...

CauchyDistribution (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CauchyDistribution[a, b] represents a Cauchy distribution with location parameter a and scale parameter b.

CharacteristicFunction (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

CharacteristicFunction[dist, t] gives the characteristic function for the symbolic distribution dist as a function of the variable t.CharacteristicFunction[dist, {t_1, t_2, ...

Function (Built-in Mathematica Symbol)

Function[body] or body & is a pure function. The formal parameters are # (or #1), #2, etc. Function[x, body] is a pure function with a single formal parameter x. ...