Characteristic function
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A function which is equal to 1 for all points in its domain which belong to a given set, and is equal to 0 for all points in the domain which do not belong to that given set.
- 2 (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters wordnet
- 3 A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable