Math Tips

Pattern Recognition

Much of math and statistics is really about pattern recognition: seeing the essential structure of a problem, recognizing when one problem is essentially the same as another problem, noticing symmetry, …

Example 1

Suppose we have the series:

$$\sum _{k=0}^{\infty }{e}^{tk}{e}^{-\lambda }\frac{{\lambda }^k}{k!}$$

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