If a hurricane were to hit Florida in the next week, what industries would be affected and how would that affected associated stock prices? What is the bias-variance tradeoff? If one is overfitting their data, will the bias be high, or low? Will the variance be high, or low? (Don't remember the exact question word-for-word, but I was essentially asked on how to perform the KNN algorithm given some input data) If two people pick a random real number from 0 to 1 (inclusive), what is the probability that the first person will pick a higher number than the second? Describe the pdf of the difference between the two numbers selected. What is the expected difference between the two numbers? (iirc there were a few mental math questions thrown in as well)
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verbal analysis, numerical analysis, and diagrammatic analysis
Expected value and game strategy for dice rolling games.
Tell me about Black Scholes options pricing model
Some basic quick math questions like multiplication and division that need to be done quickly. Some questions where you are given betting odds and you are asked to place money and explain why you spent it on an outcome
Given the odds each team will win, how much should you bet?
Some quick mental math problems.
Give a 25% confidence interval on some guesstimates and provide the bid ask
Why Optiver?
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