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  • 1Stationary distribution — may refer to:* The limiting distribution in a Markov chain * Stationary process * Stationary ergodic process * Stationary state or ground state in quantum mechanicsCrudely stated, all of the above are specific cases of a common general concept: a …

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  • 2Stationary point — Not to be confused with a fixed point where x = f(x). Stationary points (red pluses) and inflection points (green circles). The stationary points in this graph are all relative maxima or relative minima. In mathematics, particularly in calculus,… …

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  • 3Stationary process — In the mathematical sciences, a stationary process (or strict(ly) stationary process or strong(ly) stationary process) is a stochastic process whose joint probability distribution does not change when shifted in time or space. Consequently,… …

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  • 4Stationary phase approximation — In mathematics, the stationary phase approximation is a basic principle of asymptotic analysis, applying to oscillatory integrals taken over n dimensional space Rn where i is the imaginary unit. Here f and g are real valued smooth functions. The… …

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  • 5Stationary set — In mathematics, particularly in set theory and model theory, there are at least three notions of stationary set:Classical notionIf kappa is a cardinal of uncountable cofinality, Csubseteqkappa, and C intersects every club in kappa, then C is… …

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  • 6Stationary sequence — A stationary sequence is a random sequence such that the joint PDF (probability density function) of the sequence is invariant over time. If some random sequence X [n] is stationary then the following will hold:F X(x n, x {n+1},...,x {n+N… …

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  • 7Fermat's theorem (stationary points) — Fermat s theorem is a theorem in real analysis, named after Pierre de Fermat. It gives a method to find local maxima and minima of differentiable functions by showing that every local extremum of the function is a stationary point (the function… …

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  • 8X-linked congenital stationary night blindness — Classification and external resources Malfunction in transmission from the photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer to bipolar cells in the inner nuclear layer underlies CSNB. ICD …

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  • 9Covariance function — In probability theory and statistics, covariance is a measure of how much two variables change together and the covariance function describes the variance of a random variable process or field. For a random field or stochastic process Z(x) on a… …

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  • 10Wave function — Not to be confused with the related concept of the Wave equation Some trajectories of a harmonic oscillator (a ball attached to a spring) in classical mechanics (A B) and quantum mechanics (C H). In quantum mechanics (C H), the ball has a wave… …

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