Denoting an element of a square matrix that is not on the diagonal running from the upper left to the lower right.
〔数〕非对角线的
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If the off-diagonal elements are nonzero, then the fixation probability is increased, because the invading sequence gets support from its mutational neighbors.
In contrast, the off-diagonal elements, representing autocorrelation across equations, are generally negative, although small in value.
The main diagonal of the matrix contains the correct responses for each stimulus, whereas the incorrect/confused responses correspond to the off-diagonal elements.
In this symmetric case, the stability matrix A has all diagonal elements equal and all off-diagonal elements equal.
The direct elasticities are given as the bold diagonal numbers and the off-diagonal estimates are cross-elasticities.