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polynomial function

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polynomial function [¦päl·ə¦nō·mē·əl ′fəŋk·shən]
(mathematics)
A function whose values can be found by substituting the value (or values) of the independent variable (or variables) in a polynomial.


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This implied that the effects of air pollution were distributed over the previous L days following a polynomial function of degree D.
In the second stage the true mean of the estimated crude effects was modeled with a polynomial function of time for chronic effects, a linear term of daily CAP exposure concentrations for acute effects, and a random component for unknown noise.
The polynomial function would permit modeling of a new increase of slope of the dose-response function beyond the upper limits of the data set modeled here.
 
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