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convex function
Sign in to savereal function with secant line between points above the graph itself
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- continuous function
- Image
- Convex supergraph.svg
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- opposite of
- concave function
- has characteristic
- Jensen's inequality
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
Convex function on an interval
A function (in black) is convex if and only if the region above its graph (in green) is a convex set. A graph of the bivariate convex function x + xy + y Convex vs. not convex
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “convex function” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.