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hats also represent estimates

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Nice project. In my line of work, the "hat" over variables typically means that the variable is an estimate of some unknown quantity. An example is here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MaximumLikelihood.html

> The maximum likelihood estimate for a parameter _mu_ is denoted _mu-hat_.

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