Polynôme de TchebychevEn mathématiques, un polynôme de Tchebychev est un terme de l'une des deux suites de polynômes orthogonaux particulières reliées à la formule de Moivre. Les polynômes de Tchebychev sont nommés ainsi en l'honneur du mathématicien russe Pafnouti Lvovitch Tchebychev. Il existe deux suites de polynômes de Tchebychev, l'une nommée polynômes de Tchebychev de première espèce et notée T et l'autre nommée polynômes de Tchebychev de seconde espèce et notée U (dans les deux cas, l'entier naturel n correspond au degré).
Conditional probability distributionIn probability theory and statistics, given two jointly distributed random variables and , the conditional probability distribution of given is the probability distribution of when is known to be a particular value; in some cases the conditional probabilities may be expressed as functions containing the unspecified value of as a parameter. When both and are categorical variables, a conditional probability table is typically used to represent the conditional probability.
Conditioning (probability)Beliefs depend on the available information. This idea is formalized in probability theory by conditioning. Conditional probabilities, conditional expectations, and conditional probability distributions are treated on three levels: discrete probabilities, probability density functions, and measure theory. Conditioning leads to a non-random result if the condition is completely specified; otherwise, if the condition is left random, the result of conditioning is also random.
Taylor expansions for the moments of functions of random variablesIn probability theory, it is possible to approximate the moments of a function f of a random variable X using Taylor expansions, provided that f is sufficiently differentiable and that the moments of X are finite. Given and , the mean and the variance of , respectively, a Taylor expansion of the expected value of can be found via Since the second term vanishes. Also, is . Therefore, It is possible to generalize this to functions of more than one variable using multivariate Taylor expansions.
Strong operator topologyIn functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, the strong operator topology, often abbreviated SOT, is the locally convex topology on the set of bounded operators on a Hilbert space H induced by the seminorms of the form , as x varies in H. Equivalently, it is the coarsest topology such that, for each fixed x in H, the evaluation map (taking values in H) is continuous in T. The equivalence of these two definitions can be seen by observing that a subbase for both topologies is given by the sets (where T0 is any bounded operator on H, x is any vector and ε is any positive real number).
