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  2. Taylor expansions for the moments of functions of random ...

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    Since a second-order expansion for ⁡ [()] has already been derived above, it only remains to find ⁡ [() ()]. Treating () as a two-variable function, the second-order Taylor expansion is as follows:

  3. Taylor series - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Taylor series or Taylor expansion of a function is an infinite sum of terms that are expressed in terms of the function's derivatives at a single point. For most common functions, the function and the sum of its Taylor series are equal near this point.

  4. Taylor's theorem - Wikipedia

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    Taylor's theorem is named after the mathematician Brook Taylor, who stated a version of it in 1715, [2] although an earlier version of the result was already mentioned in 1671 by James Gregory. [3] Taylor's theorem is taught in introductory-level calculus courses and is one of the central elementary tools in mathematical analysis.

  5. Universal Taylor series - Wikipedia

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    Thus to -approximate () = using a polynomial with lowest degree 3, we do so for () with < / by truncating its Taylor expansion. Now iterate this construction by plugging in the lowest-degree-3 approximation into the Taylor expansion of g ( x ) {\displaystyle g(x)} , obtaining an approximation of lowest degree 9, 27, 81...

  6. Delta method - Wikipedia

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    When g is applied to a random variable such as the mean, the delta method would tend to work better as the sample size increases, since it would help reduce the variance, and thus the taylor approximation would be applied to a smaller range of the function g at the point of interest.

  7. Linearization - Wikipedia

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    The linear approximation of a function is the first order Taylor expansion around the point of interest. In the study of dynamical systems, linearization is a method for assessing the local stability of an equilibrium point of a system of nonlinear differential equations or discrete dynamical systems. [1]

  8. Analytic function - Wikipedia

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    Analytic functions of several variables have some of the same properties as analytic functions of one variable. However, especially for complex analytic functions, new and interesting phenomena show up in 2 or more complex dimensions: Zero sets of complex analytic functions in more than one variable are never discrete.

  9. Algebra of random variables - Wikipedia

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    the sum of two random variables is a random variable; the product of two random variables is a random variable; addition and multiplication of random variables are both commutative; and; there is a notion of conjugation of random variables, satisfying (XY) * = Y * X * and X ** = X for all random variables X,Y and coinciding with complex ...