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    The approximation error in a given data value represents the significant discrepancy that arises when an exact, true value is compared against some approximation...
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  • approximation error. In applying corrections to the trajectory or course being steered, cybernetics can be seen as the most general approach to error...
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  • An approximation is anything that is intentionally similar but not exactly equal to something else. The word approximation is derived from Latin approximatus...
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  • assumption is not quite correct, and introduces some error. To reduce the error in approximation, Frank Yates, an English statistician, suggested a correction...
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    conditions are given by the Heaviside step function. The error function and its approximations can be used to estimate results that hold with high probability...
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    characterizing the errors introduced thereby. What is meant by best and simpler will depend on the application. A closely related topic is the approximation of functions...
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    mathematics, Stirling's approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good approximation, leading to accurate...
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    versions of Taylor's theorem, some giving explicit estimates of the approximation error of the function by its Taylor polynomial. Taylor's theorem is named...
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    are approximations of a function, which become generally more accurate as n increases. Taylor's theorem gives quantitative estimates on the error introduced...
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    thousandth of the radius when using the simplified formula. The approximation error by using the simplified linear formula will increase as the angle...
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    In geometric optics, the paraxial approximation is a small-angle approximation used in Gaussian optics and ray tracing of light through an optical system...
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  • expansion used in the approximation. The expressions: a zeroth-order approximation, a first-order approximation, a second-order approximation, and so forth are...
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  • undershoot the function values. As more sinusoids are used, this approximation error approaches a limit of about 9% of the jump, though the infinite Fourier...
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    quasi-Monte Carlo method are beneficial in these situations. The approximation error of the quasi-Monte Carlo method is bounded by a term proportional...
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  • Machine epsilon or machine precision is an upper bound on the relative approximation error due to rounding in floating point number systems. This value characterizes...
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  • {\displaystyle a_{i}} s gives a suitable approximation of the square root, with X n {\displaystyle X_{n}} being the approximation error. For example, in the decimal...
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  • operations done with them. This is a form of quantization error. When using approximation equations or algorithms, especially when using finitely many...
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    Overfitting is directly related to approximation error of the selected function class and the optimization error of the optimization procedure. A function...
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    from the approximation. An important part of the analysis of any numerical integration method is to study the behavior of the approximation error as a function...
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    (2005). Some more approximations can be found at: Error function#Approximation with elementary functions. In particular, small relative error on the whole...
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    smaller the angle is, the relative error of these approximations shrinks by two orders of magnitude. The approximation ⁠ cos ⁡ θ ≈ 1 − 1 2 θ 2 {\displaystyle...
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  • tolerance. Another application is in the computation of approximation errors when the relative error of a measurement is required.[citation needed] Minimum...
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  • A minimax approximation algorithm (or L∞ approximation or uniform approximation) is a method to find an approximation of a mathematical function that...
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  • features of f. The resulting error is necessarily smaller than the error of a linear approximation which selects the M approximation vectors independently of...
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  • In mathematics, low-rank approximation refers to the process of approximating a given matrix by a matrix of lower rank. More precisely, it is a minimization...
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    measuring the error. In the simplest case this leads to least squares approximation. Approximation theory studies how to find the best approximation to a given...
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  • {\displaystyle \mu } will involve the asymptotic limit of the ratio of an approximation error term above to an asymptotic order q {\displaystyle q} power of a...
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    the number of digits after the decimal separator, one can make the approximation errors as small as one wants, when one has a method for computing the new...
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  • S2CID 14357246. Clarke, B., Bayes model averaging and stacking when model approximation error cannot be ignored, Journal of Machine Learning Research, pp 683-712...
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    came within an acceptable error range of the actual result. Common software methods in the early 1990s drew approximations from a lookup table. The key...
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