{"id":8789,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polynomial\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:32","slug":"polynomial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polynomial\/","title":{"rendered":"Polynomial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical expression containing three or more terms, denoted by&nbsp;letters. &nbsp;It has the general form:&nbsp;f(x)=anxn&nbsp;+an\u22121xn\u22121&nbsp;+&#8230;+a2x2&nbsp;+a1x+a0,&nbsp;where a0, a1 etc. are constants (real numbers) and n is the highest power of the variable, termed the degree or order of the polynomial.&nbsp;&nbsp;A polynomial of degree one (i.e., whose highest power of n is one) is called a linear polynomial.&nbsp;&nbsp;Polynomials are used widely across most sciences, especially with regard to capturing and graphing the nature of a variety of different curves (e.g., in estimating birth and death rates).<\/p>\n<p>See Exponential changes, <a href=\"polynomial_analysis_of_variance\">Polynomial analysis of variance<\/a>, Trend<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical expression containing three or more terms, denoted by&nbsp;letters. &nbsp;It has the general form:&nbsp;f(x)=anxn&nbsp;+an\u22121xn\u22121&nbsp;+&#8230;+a2x2&nbsp;+a1x+a0,&nbsp;where a0, a1 etc. are constants (real numbers) and n is the highest power of the variable, termed the degree or order of the polynomial.&nbsp;&nbsp;A polynomial of degree one (i.e., whose highest power of n is one) is called a linear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/polynomial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Polynomial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}