List of Symbols

$b04-math-0001$	much greater than
$b04-math-0002$	proportional to
$b04-math-0003$	is distributed according to
$b04-math-0004$	equal in distribution
$b04-math-0005$	approximately
$b04-math-0006$	expectation
$b04-math-0007$	set of natural numbers $b04-math-0008$
$b04-math-0009$	probability measure
$b04-math-0010$	the real line = one-dimensional Euclidean space
$b04-math-0011$	$b04-math-0012$ -dimensional Euclidean space
$b04-math-0013$	Kullback-Leibler divergence
$b04-math-0014$	Shannon entropy
$b04-math-0015$	Bernoulli distribution
$b04-math-0016$	binomial distribution
$b04-math-0017$	exponential distribution
$b04-math-0018$	normal or Gaussian distribution
$b04-math-0019$	uniform distribution
$b04-math-0020$	smoothing parameter or acceptance probability
$b04-math-0021$	level parameter
$b04-math-0022$	rarity parameter
$b04-math-0023$	probability density (discrete or continuous)
$b04-math-0024$	importance sampling density
$b04-math-0025$	indicator function of event $b04-math-0026$
$b04-math-0027$	(natural) logarithm
$b04-math-0028$	sample size
$b04-math-0029$	elite sample size
$b04-math-0030$	screened elite sample size
$b04-math-0031$	Big-O order symbol
$b04-math-0032$	performance function
$b04-math-0033$	$b04-math-0034$ -th order statistic
$b04-math-0035$	nominal reference parameter (vector)
$b04-math-0036$	reference parameter (vector)
$b04-math-0037$	estimated reference parameter
$b04-math-0038$	likelihood ratio
$b04-math-0039$	vectors
$b04-math-0040$	random vectors
$b04-math-0041$	sets