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#LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset FormulaMacro
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\end_inset
\begin_inset FormulaMacro
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\begin_inset FormulaMacro
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\begin_inset FormulaMacro
\newcommand{\transpose}[1]{{#1}^{\text{T}}}
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\newcommand{\Cov}{\text{Cov}}
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\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
Identities, approximations, limits
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Identity:
\begin_inset Formula $\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}\left(1+\frac{a}{x}\right)^{x}=e^{a}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $e^{x}>1+x$
\end_inset
for
\begin_inset Formula $x>0$
\end_inset
and
\begin_inset Formula $e^{x}\approx1+x$
\end_inset
for
\begin_inset Formula $-.1<x<.1$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Euler's identity:
\begin_inset Formula $e^{i\pi}+1=0$
\end_inset
(from
\begin_inset Formula $e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x$
\end_inset
)
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
General
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
geometric mean
\begin_inset Formula $\left(\prod_{i}x_{i}\right)^{\frac{1}{n}}$
\end_inset
is exp of arith mean of logs,
\begin_inset Formula $\exp\left(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i}\log x_{i}\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
eg annualizing compounding: given annual growths
\begin_inset Formula $a,b,c>1$
\end_inset
and initial price
\begin_inset Formula $p_{0}$
\end_inset
,
\begin_inset Formula $p_{3}=abcp_{0}=\mu^{3}p_{0}$
\end_inset
where geometric mean
\begin_inset Formula $\mu=\sqrt[3]{abc}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
harmonic mean
\begin_inset Formula $\left(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i=1}^{n}x_{i}^{-1}\right)^{-1}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
if
\begin_inset Formula $x_{i}$
\end_inset
subject to (arithmetic-)mean-preserving spread, harmonic mean decreases
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
preferable way to avg multiples, e.g.
P/E ratio
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
vs arith mean
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
A travels 20mph for 1h then 30mph for 1h, avg speed is arith mean
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
A travels 20mph for 1mi then 30mph for 1mi, avg speed is harmonic mean
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
F-1 score is harmonic mean of precision & recall
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
power mean
\begin_inset Formula $M^{r}\left(\left\{ x_{i}\right\} \right)=\left(\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i}x_{i}^{r}\right)^{\frac{1}{r}}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $r=-1$
\end_inset
harmonic,
\begin_inset Formula $r=0$
\end_inset
geom,
\begin_inset Formula $r=1$
\end_inset
arith,
\begin_inset Formula $r=2$
\end_inset
quadratic (root mean square),
\begin_inset Formula $r=-\infty$
\end_inset
min,
\begin_inset Formula $r=\infty$
\end_inset
max
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
Stirling's approx:
\begin_inset Formula $\ln n!=n\ln n-n+O\left(\log n\right)$
\end_inset
where last term is
\begin_inset Formula $\frac{1}{2}\ln\left(2\pi n\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
Or,
\begin_inset Formula $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\frac{n!}{\sqrt{2\pi n}\left(\frac{n}{e}\right)^{n}}=1$
\end_inset
or
\begin_inset Formula $n!\sim\sqrt{2\pi n}\left(\frac{n}{e}\right)^{n}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
Taylor series: represent function using derivatives at some point
\begin_inset Formula $a$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $f\left(x\right)=f\left(a\right)+\frac{f'\left(a\right)}{1!}\left(x-a\right)+\frac{f''\left(a\right)}{2!}\left(x-a\right)^{2}+\frac{f^{\left(3\right)}\left(a\right)}{3!}\left(x-a\right)^{3}+\dots=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{f^{\left(n\right)}\left(a\right)}{n!}\left(x-a\right)^{n}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Maclaurin series is Taylor series at
\begin_inset Formula $a=0$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
common Maclaurin series
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
of polynomial is the polynomial
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $\left(1-x\right)^{-1}=1+x+x^{2}+x^{3}+\dots$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Integral of above is
\begin_inset Formula $\log\left(1-x\right)=-x-\frac{1}{2}x^{2}-\frac{1}{3}x^{3}-\dots$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $e^{x}=1+x+\frac{x^{2}}{2!}+\frac{x^{3}}{3!}+\dots$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Section
Information Theory
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
surprisal:
\begin_inset Formula $-\log P\left(x\right)=\log\frac{1}{P\left(x\right)}$
\end_inset
; in bits; additive; used in entropy, KLIC, etc.
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $P\left(x\right)=\frac{1}{n}\implies-\log P\left(x\right)=n$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
entropy
\begin_inset Formula $H\left(X\right)=\E\left[I\left(X\right)\right]=-\sum_{x}p\left(x\right)\log p\left(x\right)\ge0$
\end_inset
(expected
\emph on
information content
\emph default
)
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
lower prob events have higher information content
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
measured in bits
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
mutual information
\begin_inset Formula $I\left(X;Y\right)=\sum_{y}\sum_{x}p_{X,Y}\left(x,y\right)\log\frac{p_{X,Y}\left(x,y\right)}{p_{X}\left(x\right)p_{Y}\left(y\right)}\ge0$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
self-information is entropy:
\begin_inset Formula $I\left(X;X\right)=H\left(X\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $I\left(X;Y\right)=H\left(X\right)-H\left(X\mid Y\right)=H\left(Y\right)-H\left(Y\mid X\right)=H\left(X\right)+H\left(Y\right)-H\left(X,Y\right)=H\left(X,Y\right)-H\left(X\mid Y\right)-H\left(Y\mid X\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
symmetric uncertainy
\begin_inset Formula $U\left(X,Y\right)=2\frac{I\left(X;Y\right)}{H\left(X\right)+H\left(Y\right)}\in\left[0,1\right]$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
relationship to correlation
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
MI measures general dependence, correlation measures linear dependence;
MI is better for measuring dependence
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
MI applicable to symbolic sequences; correlation applicable only to numerical
sequences; but MI must estimate continuous distributions
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Flex URL
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=D065413DAA29F4C500219B2822
1E904A?doi=10.1.1.15.672&rep=rep1&type=pdf
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\end_deeper
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
Kullback–Leibler divergence aka KLIC: non-symmetric measure of difference
btwn dists
\begin_inset Formula $P,Q$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
expected # extra bits to code samples from
\begin_inset Formula $P$
\end_inset
when using code based on
\begin_inset Formula $Q$
\end_inset
rather than on
\begin_inset Formula $P$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
alt intuition: avg likelihood of data distributed as
\begin_inset Formula $P$
\end_inset
given
\begin_inset Formula $Q$
\end_inset
as model:
\begin_inset Formula $D_{\text{KL}}\left(P\|Q\right)=-\log\bar{L}$
\end_inset
where
\begin_inset Formula $L=\Pr\left[X\sim P\mid Q\right]$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $D_{\mbox{KL}}\left(P\parallel Q\right)=\sum_{i}P\left(i\right)\log\frac{P\left(i\right)}{Q\left(i\right)}=\sum_{i}P\left(i\right)\left(\log Q\left(i\right)-\log P\left(i\right)\right)$
\end_inset
; integral for continuous
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $D_{\mbox{KL}}\ge0$
\end_inset
;
\begin_inset Formula $D_{\mbox{KL}}=0$
\end_inset
for
\begin_inset Formula $P=Q$
\end_inset
; asymmetric
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
mutual information
\begin_inset Formula $I\left(X;Y\right)=D_{\text{KL}}\left(\Pr\left[X,Y\right]\|\Pr\left[X\right]\Pr\left[Y\right]\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Flex URL
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
http://www.snl.salk.edu/~shlens/kl.pdf
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
normalized compression distance (NCD):
\begin_inset Formula $NCD\left(x,y\right)=\frac{C\left(xy\right)-\min\left\{ C\left(x\right),C\left(y\right)\right\} }{\max\left\{ C\left(x\right),C\left(y\right)\right\} }$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
Finance
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
rate of return (ROR) aka return on investment (ROI) aka return
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
let
\begin_inset Formula $V_{f}$
\end_inset
be final value,
\begin_inset Formula $V_{i}$
\end_inset
be initial value
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
ratio:
\begin_inset Formula $r=\frac{V_{f}}{V_{i}}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
arithmetic return aka yield:
\begin_inset Formula $r_{\text{arith}}=\frac{V_{f}-V_{i}}{V_{i}}=r-1$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
logarithmic/continuous compound return:
\begin_inset Formula $r_{\log}=\ln\frac{V_{f}}{V_{i}}=\ln\left(1+r\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
compound annual growth rate (CAGR):
\begin_inset Formula $\left(\frac{V_{f}}{V_{i}}\right)^{\frac{1}{n}}-1$
\end_inset
where
\begin_inset Formula $n$
\end_inset
is # years
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
annual percentage rate (APR)
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Section
Signal Processing
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
DFT:
\begin_inset Formula $X_{k}=\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}x_{n}\exp\left(-\frac{2\pi i}{N}kn\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
IDFT:
\begin_inset Formula $X_{k}=\frac{1}{N}\sum_{n=0}^{N-1}x_{n}\exp\left(i2\pi k\frac{n}{N}\right)$
\end_inset
(normalized, changed exp sign)
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
interesting presentation: strength of freq
\begin_inset Formula $k$
\end_inset
is distance from origin of the midpoint of your signal's points as the
signal are spun around a circle
\begin_inset Flex URL
status collapsed
\begin_layout Plain Layout
http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/05/17/understanding-the-fourier-transform/
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
IIR, FIR: TODO
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
Probability
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subsection
Distributions
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Binomial: # successes in
\begin_inset Formula $n$
\end_inset
Bernoulli trials each with success prob
\begin_inset Formula $p$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X=k\right]={n \choose k}p^{k}\left(1-p\right)^{n-k}$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=np$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=np\left(1-p\right)$
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_deeper
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Geometric: # trials until Bernoulli success with prob
\begin_inset Formula $p$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X=k\right]=\left(1-p\right)^{k-1}p$
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=\frac{1}{p}$
\end_inset
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=\frac{1-p}{p^{2}}$
\end_inset
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Hypergeom: # successes in
\begin_inset Formula $n$
\end_inset
draws from population of
\begin_inset Formula $N$
\end_inset
containing
\begin_inset Formula $m$
\end_inset
successes
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\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X=k\right]=\frac{{m \choose k}{N-m \choose n-k}}{{N \choose m}}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=n\frac{m}{N}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=n\frac{m}{N}\frac{\left(N-m\right)}{N}\frac{N-n}{N-1}$
\end_inset
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Negative binomial: # successes in
\begin_inset Formula $n$
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Bernoulli trials before
\begin_inset Formula $r$
\end_inset
failures (generalization of geom)
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\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X=k\right]={k+r-1 \choose k}\left(1-p\right)^{r}p^{k}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=\frac{pr}{1-p}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=\frac{pr}{\left(1-p\right)^{2}}$
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Poisson: # arrivals in sliver of time (infinite-granularity binomial) assuming
mean
\begin_inset Formula $\lambda$
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arrival rate
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\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X=k\right]=\frac{\lambda^{k}}{k!}e^{-\lambda}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=\lambda$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=\lambda$
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Simple interesting proof from binomial
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Normal: mean
\begin_inset Formula $\mu$
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, standard deviation
\begin_inset Formula $\sigma$
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\begin_inset Formula $f\left(x\right)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi\sigma^{2}}}\exp\left(-\frac{\left(x-\mu\right)^{2}}{2\sigma^{2}}\right)=\dots\exp\left(-\frac{Z^{2}}{2}\right)$
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=\mu$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=\sigma^{2}$
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Empirical rule: z-scores of 1/2/3 span 68%/95%/99.7%
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Is its own Fourier transform
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Beta: density shape over
\begin_inset Formula $\left(0,1\right)$
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uniform dist is a beta dist
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params
\begin_inset Formula $a,b$
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s.t.
\begin_inset Formula $\text{beta}\left[a,b\right]\left(\theta\right)=\alpha\theta^{a-1}\left(1-\theta\right)^{b-1}$
\end_inset
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\begin_inset Formula $E\left[X\right]=\frac{a}{a+b}$
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: higher
\begin_inset Formula $a$
\end_inset
suggests
\begin_inset Formula $\Theta$
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closer to 1 than 0
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conjugate prior for Bernoulli/binomial dists
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Exponential: time btwn Poisson process events
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\begin_inset Formula $f\left(x\right)=\begin{cases}
\lambda e^{-\lambda x}, & x\ge0\\
0, & x<0
\end{cases}$
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;
\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X<x\right]=\begin{cases}
1-e^{-\lambda x}, & x\ge0\\
0, & x<0
\end{cases}$
\end_inset
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\begin_inset Formula $\E\left[X\right]=\frac{1}{\lambda}$
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\begin_inset Formula $\Var\left[X\right]=\frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}$
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memoryless:
\begin_inset Formula $\Pr\left[X>s\mid X>t\right]=\Pr\left[X>s-t\right]$
\end_inset
/ constant event rate
\begin_inset Formula $\lambda$
\end_inset
/ constant hazard
\begin_inset Formula $\lambda$
\end_inset
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Gamma: scale
\begin_inset Formula $\theta$
\end_inset
and shape
\begin_inset Formula $k$
\end_inset
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models waiting times: sum of
\begin_inset Formula $k$
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indep exponentially distributed RVs, each with mean
\begin_inset Formula $\theta$
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also the sample variance of normal data
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conjugate prior for many dists TODO