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Monte Carlo/Statistics symbols consistency #21

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Oleg-Krivosheev opened this issue May 31, 2017 · 1 comment

Oleg-Krivosheev commented May 31, 2017

In general, convention for Statistics and Monte Carlo is as following:

Distribution parameters are marked with Greek letters/symbols
Sampling results are marked with Latin letters/symbols

$\mu$ vs $m$, and $\sigma$ vs $s$
For example,

distribution parameters, in Greek

mu = 0.0
sigma = 1.0
v = np.random.normal(mu, sigma, 1000)

Sampling parameters, in Latin

m = np.mean(v)
s = np.std(v)

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mdipierro commented May 31, 2017

I like this!

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