This is an interesting class of functions, but not nearly interesting enough for calculus purposes. While I do spend lots of time pushing the idea of linear approximations on my students ...

power functions, Lorenz curves, Gaussian functions, and other fitting methods. Both linear and nonlinear regression predict Y responses from an X variable (or variables). Nonlinear regression is a ...

Results derived from GP models are usually very sensitive to the type of achievement function that is chosen ... All references mentioned in Class 2 use linear goal programming (GP).