Useful mathematical facts

Useful mathematical facts#

Collection of various formulae used in the calculations and/or useful stuff.

To write (not in this order):

  • Some gaussian identities

  • ``Completing the square’’ for quadratic forms

  • Saddle point method

  • Central Limit Theorem (different perspectives/proofs)

  • Large Deviation Theory (or in the statistic chapter?)

  • Stochastic calculus and SDE

  • Derivative of functions of matrices

  • Singular value decomposition (and PCA)

  • Lagrange multipliers

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