characteristic function
noun1
Mathematical analysis, Mathematics, Sciences 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
Mathematics, Probability theory, Sciences A complex function completely defining the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable
- Synonyms
- indicator function
- Related terms
- subset classifier
- Hypernyms
- function
- Hyponyms
- point characteristic function