In mathematics, influence function is used to mean either:
- a synonym for a Green's function;
- Influence function (statistics), the effect on an estimator of changing one point of the sample.
Famous quotes containing the words influence and/or function:
“The higher the state of civilization, the more completely do the actions of one member of the social body influence all the rest, and the less possible is it for any one man to do a wrong thing without interfering, more or less, with the freedom of all his fellow-citizens.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)