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A Turing machine is a mathematical model of computation describing an abstract machine that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table...

Informally, in frequentist statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is an interval which is expected to typically contain the parameter being estimated....

Multiplication (often denoted by the cross symbol ×, by the mid-line dot operator ⋅, by juxtaposition, or, on computers, by an asterisk *) is one of the...

In the branch of mathematics known as real analysis, the Riemann integral, created by Bernhard Riemann, was the first rigorous definition of the integral...

Decision tree learning is a supervised learning approach used in statistics, data mining and machine learning. In this formalism, a classification or regression...

A cryptosystem is considered to have information-theoretic security (also called unconditional security) if the system is secure against adversaries with...

In mathematics, a functional is a certain type of function. The exact definition of the term varies depending on the subfield (and sometimes even the author)...

In mathematics, an orthogonal polynomial sequence is a family of polynomials such that any two different polynomials in the sequence are orthogonal to...

In probability theory and statistics, the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution is a family of discrete multivariate probability distributions on a finite...

Jacques Tits (French: [ʒak tits]) (12 August 1930 – 5 December 2021) was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry...

In mathematics, Felix Klein's j-invariant or j function, regarded as a function of a complex variable τ, is a modular function of weight zero for special...

In mathematics, an abstract polytope is an algebraic partially ordered set which captures the dyadic property of a traditional polytope without specifying...

Bertrand's box paradox is a veridical paradox in elementary probability theory. It was first posed by Joseph Bertrand in his 1889 work Calcul des Probabilités...

The ziggurat algorithm is an algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling. Belonging to the class of rejection sampling algorithms, it relies on an underlying...

In the mathematical field of topology, a topological space is usually defined by declaring its open sets. However, this is not necessary, as there are...

In mathematics the nth central binomial coefficient is the particular binomial coefficient ( 2 n n ) = ( 2 n ) ! ( n ! ) 2 = ∏ k = 1 n n + k k  for all ...

Benson Stanley Farb (born October 25, 1967) is an American mathematician at the University of Chicago. His research fields include geometric group theory...

In mathematics, the André–Oort conjecture is a problem in Diophantine geometry, a branch of number theory, that can be seen as a non-abelian analogue of...