The phrase "a formal function" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an event or role that adheres to established protocols or standards, often in a professional or official context.
Example: "The gala dinner will serve as a formal function to honor the achievements of our employees."
Alternatives: "an official event" or "a ceremonial role".
Ultimately, Leibniz offers a theory of intrasubstantial causation that incorporates efficient, final, and formal causes, where only substances or better yet, their powers can be efficient causes and perceptions (probably) have a teleological as well as a formal function.
Other changes Twitter made in reaction to the user behavior are even more remarkable: Both retweets and hashtags were first initiated by users without having a formal function to use it; this was a matter of self-initiative in order to spread information or add context to a message.
I don't love suits as some do but I found the comment odd coming from someone who I kid you not, was wearing some kind of hybrid safari-bassfishing chic getup at a formal function.
Clenched in unspeakably crude formation, those hairy bodies inspire enormous laughs, but they also serve an elegant formal function.
The very fact that today's event, though officially dubbed the autumn statement, is occurring once again – like seven of the last 11 – in December, which is not in autumn at all, is a sign that the statement's formal function has become fuzzy.
In general, once a formal target function and a suitable probability structure are defined, optimization of sequential studies can theoretically be achieved using backward induction.
To this end, we suggest a formal likelihood function that incorporates censored observations, while accounting for model structure deficits and uncertainty in input data.
In one scene, students recite phrases they have been told, presumably by nonblack students, including "You only got in because you're black" and "The government feels bad for you". In another scene, a black student dressed in a tuxedo and a red bow tie describes being at a formal university function and being confused for a waiter.
If spirometry data were not available, patients were invited to participate for a formal lung function assessment, according to the ATS/ERS guidelines for spirometry [ 26].
However, the role of advisory committees - which provide advice and expertise to support the study but without a formal oversight function - has not been investigated.
It does not attempt to attach a probability or likelihood to a parameter value given the data as likelihood and Bayesian techniques would, nor does it attempt to optimize a formal fitting function as would a genetic algorithm.
