representative — A person or thing that represents, or stands for, a number or class of persons or things, or that in some way corresponds to, stands for, replaces, or is equivalent to, another person or thing. Gaffney v. Unit Crane & Shovel Corp., D.C.Pa., 117 F … Black's law dictionary
Representative town meeting — A representative town meeting is a form of municipal legislature particularly common in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Vermont.Representative Town Meetings function largely the same as an Open Town Meeting, except that not all… … Wikipedia
Representative sequences — Protein sequences can provide data about the biological function and evolution of proteins and protein domains. Grouping and interrelating protein sequences can therefore provide information about both human biological processes, and the… … Wikipedia
Rational function — In mathematics, a rational function is any function which can be written as the ratio of two polynomial functions. DefinitionsIn the case of one variable, x , a rational function is a function of the form: f(x) = frac{P(x)}{Q(x)}where P and Q are … Wikipedia
High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy — The High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (HR) is the main co ordinator of the Common Foreign and Security Policy within the European Union. The position is currently held by Javier Solana and is based in the General… … Wikipedia
Consul (representative) — Consulate and honorary consul redirect here. For the Graham Greene novel, see The Honorary Consul. For the uses of consul as the chief magistrate of a city state, see Consul. The political title Consul is used for the official representatives of… … Wikipedia
Likelihood function — In statistics, a likelihood function (often simply the likelihood) is a function of the parameters of a statistical model, defined as follows: the likelihood of a set of parameter values given some observed outcomes is equal to the probability of … Wikipedia
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Zeta function universality — In mathematics, the universality of zeta functions is the remarkable property of the Riemann zeta function and other, similar, functions, such as the Dirichlet L functions, to approximate arbitrary non vanishing holomorphic functions arbitrarily… … Wikipedia
Polynomial and rational function modeling — In statistical modeling (especially process modeling), polynomial functions and rational functions are sometimes used as an empirical technique for curve fitting.Polynomial function modelsA polynomial function is one that has the form:y = a… … Wikipedia
