Definition of "determinant"

Shields and Young (1993) argue that the budget participation literature "has not produced a coherent nor unified definition" of both the determinants and consequences of budget participation.

1999, Noah P. Barsky, Stuart Bruchey (editor), Organizational Determinants of Budgetary Influence and Involvement, Taylor & Francis (Garland Publishing), page 4

The field of the social determinants of health is perhaps the most complex and challenging of all.

2003, Agis D. Tsouros, “Foreword”, in Richard Wilkinson, Michael Marmot, editors, Social Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts, 2nd edition, World Health Organization, page 5

The aim of this book has been to assess the determinants of capital punishment without taking a stand for or against the death penalty.

2004, Carsten Anckar, Determinants of the Death Penalty: A comparative study of the world, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 165

The determinant of a square matrix A ( n ) {\displaystyle A_{(n)}} is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements a i j {\displaystyle a_{ij}} of A {\displaystyle A} .

1966 [Allyn & Bacon], Howard Whitley Eves, Elementary Matrix Theory, 1980, Dover, Unabridged corrected republication, page 165

Show that the determinant of a Hermitian matrix is real and that of a skew-Hermitian matrix is imaginary.

1990, Assem S. Deif, Advanced Matrix Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (Abacus Press), 2nd Edition, page 18

Using this definition, we derive the basic properties of a determinant that are useful in its evaluation. In particular, it is shown how the calculation of a determinant can be reduced to the calculation of determinants of lower order.

2009, Richard A. Brualdi, Dragoš Cvetkoviċ, A Combinatorial Approach to Matrix Theory and Its Applications‎, Taylor & Francis (CRC / Chapman & Hall), page 63