Glossary terms

[OriolAbril]

I thought it may be more convenient to have an issue where anyone can propose terms to be added to the glossary instead of requiring a PR for every term. So far, #4797 adds only functional programming and dispatching terms.

[ally-lee]

Some terms from pymc-devs/pymc-examples#185 to potentially add to the glossary:

• Equidispersion: variance = mean
• Underdisperson: variance < mean
• Overdispersion: variance > mean
• Generalized Poisson PMF:

[ricardoV94]

The staples: Prior, Likelihood, Posterior, MC, MCMC, Markov chain, Probability density, Probability mass, MAP, MLE...

[martinacantaro]

Work has already started on building this glossary. Here are the details:

Goal
Building a useful Glossary with definitions of common terms, that can be linked to from the documents.

How to contribute

1. Pick a term from the list below, excluding those labeled in progress (those have already been picked)
2. Comment this issue to inform us that you are working on it.
3. Make a PR editing the docs/source/glossary.md file following this format
4. Include the following ID string in your PR title or commit message (this will help us keep track of it in Clickup): CU-5t5y0p

List of terms:

• Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) (in progress)
• Probability density (in progress)

[jyoti-bhogal]

I would add the term Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE)

[xiaoye-hua]

I will add the term Maximum a Posteriori (MAP)

[ricardoV94]

Is this issue still needed?