Concept Notes· Quant
Probability & Expectation
The probability that quant interviews actually test is a small, sharp toolkit: expectation as a weighted average, conditioning on what you know, and the algebra of variance and covariance. You are rarely asked to prove a theorem — you are asked to set a problem up cleanly and reason to a number.
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