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Definition of Expansions
1. expansion [n] - See also: expansion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansions
Literary usage of Expansions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1889)
"... (1) On the expansions of the Theta functions in ascending powers of the argument.
By JWL GLAISHER, MA, FRS The author laid before the Society certain ..."
2. Analytic Statistical Models by Ib M. Skovgaard (1990)
"For such transformations there are great technical difficulties in obtaining
expansions beyond the first order results and therefore the expansions for the ..."
3. Cast Iron: A Record of Original Research by William John Keep (1902)
"This remark, and the difference between the expansions of ... Relation of these
expansions to the Critical Points of Iron and Steel. ..."
4. State of the Art in Probability and Statistics: Festschrift for Willem R by Mathisca de Gunst, Chris Klaassen, A. W. van der Vaart (2001)
"Berry-Esseen bounds and Edgeworth expansions are discussed for R-, L- and [/-statistics
... As a final topic, empirical Edgeworth expansions are considered. ..."
5. The Geometric Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations and Algebraic Functions by Georges Valiron (1984)
"The series expansions of the solutions about the point aa 0 will be convergent
for all finite a, but the calculation of the general term of these expansions ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On Algebraical expansions, of which the fractional series for the cotangent and
cosecant ... The expansions in question are:— 1 1 1 *(!»-. i3) (2s -x>) . ..."