Math

In this section we introduce math foundations.

We will use the following notations.

\[\begin{split} \begin{array}{l} \boldsymbol{A}, \boldsymbol{B}, \boldsymbol{X}, \boldsymbol{Y} \cdots \text { matrix } \\ \boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{x}, \boldsymbol{y} \cdots \text { vector } \\ a, b, x, y \cdots \text { scalar } \\ X, Y \cdots \text{random variable} \end{array} \end{split}\]

We will use \(\boldsymbol{x}=\left[\begin{array}{c} x_{1} \\ \vdots \\ x_{p} \end{array}\right]\) to represent both a random vector or an observation vector wherever the context is clear.