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Monte Carlo/Statistics symbols consistency

Open Oleg-Krivosheev opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

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)

Oleg-Krivosheev avatar May 31 '17 20:05 Oleg-Krivosheev

I like this!

mdipierro avatar May 31 '17 20:05 mdipierro