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  2. Computing the permanent - Wikipedia

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    The best known [1] general exact algorithm is due to H. J. Ryser ().Ryser's method is based on an inclusion–exclusion formula that can be given [2] as follows: Let be obtained from A by deleting k columns, let () be the product of the row-sums of , and let be the sum of the values of () over all possible .

  3. Algorithms for calculating variance - Wikipedia

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    This algorithm can easily be adapted to compute the variance of a finite population: simply divide by n instead of n − 1 on the last line.. Because SumSq and (Sum×Sum)/n can be very similar numbers, cancellation can lead to the precision of the result to be much less than the inherent precision of the floating-point arithmetic used to perform the computation.

  4. Kahan summation algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Starting with Python 3.12, the built-in "sum()" function uses the Neumaier summation. [ 25 ] In the Julia language, the default implementation of the sum function does pairwise summation for high accuracy with good performance, [ 26 ] but an external library provides an implementation of Neumaier's variant named sum_kbn for the cases when ...

  5. Inverse-variance weighting - Wikipedia

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    For normally distributed random variables inverse-variance weighted averages can also be derived as the maximum likelihood estimate for the true value. Furthermore, from a Bayesian perspective the posterior distribution for the true value given normally distributed observations and a flat prior is a normal distribution with the inverse-variance weighted average as a mean and variance ().

  6. Summation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, summation is the addition of a sequence of numbers, called addends or summands; the result is their sum or total. Beside numbers, other types of values can be summed as well: functions , vectors , matrices , polynomials and, in general, elements of any type of mathematical objects on which an operation denoted "+" is defined.

  7. Prefix sum - Wikipedia

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    Prefix sums are trivial to compute in sequential models of computation, by using the formula y i = y i − 1 + x i to compute each output value in sequence order. However, despite their ease of computation, prefix sums are a useful primitive in certain algorithms such as counting sort, [1] [2] and they form the basis of the scan higher-order function in functional programming languages.

  8. Normal-inverse-Wishart distribution - Wikipedia

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    Suppose the sampling density is a multivariate normal distribution |, (,) where is an matrix and (of length ) is row of the matrix .. With the mean and covariance matrix of the sampling distribution is unknown, we can place a Normal-Inverse-Wishart prior on the mean and covariance parameters jointly

  9. Unscented transform - Wikipedia

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    A similar canonical set of sigma points can be generated in any number of dimensions by taking the zero vector and the points comprising the rows of the identity matrix, computing the mean of the set of points, subtracting the mean from each point so that the resulting set has a mean of zero, then computing the covariance of the zero-mean set ...