functional form

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meanings of functionaland form

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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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Examples of functional form

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