functional form

collocation in English

meaningsoffunctionalandform

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functional
adjective
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition offunctionalandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This demonstrates one of the primary advantages of specifying a problem infunctionalform, that of its simplicity.
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Unfortunately, thefunctionalformof an estimated eigenvalue's sampling distribution is unknown, and it is even impossible to calculate its standard error analytically.
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It is possible that the shape orfunctionalformof the baseline hazard differs for different individual agencies or groups of agencies.
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Furthermore, in the actual analysis, the utility from consumption is assumed to take the constant relative risk aversionfunctionalform.
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In this way, the sampling distribution can be estimated experimentally, without any a priori assumptions about itsfunctionalform.
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The exactfunctionalformof these expressions are not known.
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To avoid this problem the force of infection can be assumed to have an underlyingfunctionalformthat is constrained to be positive.
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This particularfunctionalformcan be defended on (what to me is) a reasonable axiomatic basis.
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Itsfunctionalformis also incorrect if thefunctionalformof the "true" model is nonlinear.
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Thisfunctionalformis linear in parameters and is locally flexible in the sense that it provides second-order differential approximation to the true profit function.
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The key innovation of the algorithm is to parameterize the (cross-sectional) density with a flexiblefunctionalform, which makes it possible to avoid simulation techniques.
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It relaxes the imposition of a specificfunctionalform, distribution of the error term, and many other restrictions of the parametric approach.
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Resultant deviances for each test were compared, with thefunctionalformexhibiting the lowest deviance being selected.
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We first fit a series of unconditional growth curve models to specify the optimalfunctionalformof growth for the internalizing scores and 10.
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This is missed by the abovefunctionalform.
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Environmental damage denoted by d(t) takes away a fraction of consumption and has a nonlinearfunctionalformthat will be discussed explicitly below.
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Moreover, the non-parametric approach does not require specification of a particularfunctionalform.
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