Glossary
| E(X) | expected value (mean) |
| Var(X) | variance |
| Bin(n, p) | binomial distribution with n trials and success probability p |
| Poiss(λ) | Poisson distribution |
| NB(p, r) | negative binomial distribution |
| N(μ, σ2) | normal (Gaussian) distribution with mean μ and variance σ2 |
| T(η) | (Student) t-distribution with η degrees of freedom |
| Gamma(z) | gamma function |
| Gamma(α, λ) | gamma distribution with shape α and rate λ |
| Beta(α, β) | beta distribution |
| Cov(X, Y) | covariance |
| ρ(X, Y) | correlation |
| MN(μ, Σ) | multivariate normal distribution |
| L(x; θ) | likelihood function with data x and parameter θ |
| Λ(x) | likelihood ratio |
| PG(1, r) | polygamma function order r |
| X ∼ F | random variable X has distribution F |
| ∝ | proportional |
| ⪯ | less or equal in sense of a special natural ordering |
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