Parametric family

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In mathematics and its applications, a parametric family or a parameterized family is a family of objects (a set of related objects) whose differences depend only on the chosen values for a set of parameters.^[1]

Common examples are parametrized (families of) functions, probability distributions, curves, shapes, etc.^{[citation needed]}