Statistics Questions for Market Maker Interviews
A market maker round does not test statistics the way a textbook does. This set is the overlap - the statistics questions that actually turn up in this format.
19 questions, 9 of them free to practise right now. The split is 2 easy, 12 medium, 5 hard.
- Chebyshev on a concrete intervalEasyStatisticsView →
- Correlation of two event indicatorsEasyProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Best linear blend of two estimatesMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Fair outcome from a biased coinMediumProbabilityStatisticsView →
- Median of a list and its squaresMediumCombinatoricsStatisticsView →
- Order statistics of two uniformsMediumRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Width of a market under uncertaintyMediumMarket Making & Betting GamesStatisticsView →
- Smallest possible MGF valueHardRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- Spread of a multinomial count gapHardRandom VariablesStatisticsView →
- How many trials to poll a proportionMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- Law of total varianceMediumConditional Probability & ExpectationExpected Value Premium
- Markov with a floorMediumStatistics Premium
- Optimally pooling two estimatorsMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- Regression to the meanMediumBrainteasersStatistics Premium
- The probability integral transformMediumRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- k-th order statisticMediumExpected ValueStatistics Premium
- Correlation of min and maxHardProbabilityRandom Variables Premium
- Ratio of two normalsHardRandom VariablesStatistics Premium
- Reservoir samplingHardStatisticsProgramming & DSA Premium
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