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* add pt, shadows, qse

* Update docs/source/guide/glossary.md

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sample mean of the measurement outcomes. Also called sampling cost, it is usually reported as a multiplicative factor $C$, defined as the ratio of the QEM estimator's variance to the sample-mean estimator's variance, and meaning that
the method needs $C \cdot N$ circuit shots to obtain the same precision as the sample-mean estimator would with only $N$ shots.

[Pauli Twirling (PT)](pt.md)
: A technique utilizing Pauli gates is used to tailor the noise in an input circuit to be more manageable. Coherent errors contribute heavily to the quadratically worst-case gate infidelities scenario compared to incoherent errors. This could indirectly affect the performance of a large noisy quantum circuit if the circuit noise is not tailored to be a Pauli noise channel i.e. incoherent.


## QEM Methods

[Classical Shadows](shadows.md)
: A quantum state is classically approximated through a small number of noisy measurements such that the error-mitigated expectation value is predicted through the classical representation.

[Clifford Data Regression (CDR)](cdr.md)
: An error mitigation model is
trained with quantum circuits that resemble the circuit of interest, but which are easier to classically simulate.
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[Probabilistic Error Cancellation (PEC)](pec.md)
: Ideal operations are represented as quasi-probability distributions over noisy implementable operations, and unbiased estimates of expectation values are obtained by averaging over circuits sampled according to this representation.

[Quantum Subspace Expansion (QSE)](qse.md)
: The error-mitigated expectation value of some observable is estimated by searching the subspace of an output quantum state for a variation of the state with the lowest error rate. This is realized without utilizing intricate syndrome measurements often required by quantum error-correcting schemes.

[Readout Error Mitigation (REM)](rem.md)
: Inverted transition/confusion matrices are applied to noisy measurement results to mitigate errors in the estimation of expectation values.

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