Probability Definitions

Random Variable

For input space $\Omega$ and output space $G$, a random variable is a function that, for each "event" $\omega \in \Omega$, assigns a probability and value $g(\omega) \in G$:

$$ X = g(\omega) \text{, with probability ) p _ { \omega } $$

Shannon Entropy

$$ H(p) = - \sum_{x} p(x) \lg p(x) $$

Conditional Entropy

$$ H(X | Y) = \sum _ {x,y} p(x,y) \lg \left( \frac{p(x,y)}{p(x)} \right) $$

Mutual Information

$$ \begin{array}{ll} I(X;Y) & = H(X) - H(X | Y) \\ & = D _ {KL} \left[ \ p(x , y) \ || \ p(x) \cdot p(y) \ \right] \\ & = D _ {KL} \left[ \ p(x | y) \ || \ p(x) \ \right] \\ & = D _ {KL} \left[ \ p(y | x) \ || \ p(y) \ \right] \\ \end{array} $$

Expectation on Transformed Random Variable

$$ \begin{array}{ll} E [ f ( X ) ] = \sum _ { k } p _ k f( x _ k ) \end{array} $$

Cross Entropy

$$ H(p,q) = - \sum_{x} p(x) \lg q(x) $$

Kullback-Leilbler Divergence

$$ \begin{array}{ll} D_{KL} (p || q) & = - \sum_{k} p(x) \lg \frac{q(x)}{p(x)} \\ & = - \left( \sum_{x} p(x) \lg q(x) - p(x) \lg p(x) \right) \end{array} $$

Maximum Likelihood Estimation

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2020-06-12