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MHB Discuss Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice
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Insights How to Get Started with Bayesian Statistics
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Insights Frequentist vs Bayesian Probability: What's the Difference?
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Insights How Bayesian Inference Works in the Context of Science
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I A variant of the Monty Hall problem
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I Please Explain (actually explain) The Monty Hall Problem
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I Bell's Theorem looks like Monty Hall problem in reverse
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B Onto set mapping is the surjective set mapping, and into injective?
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I Value of intuitionistic logic
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I Formal derivation of statement from Peano Arithmetic system
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I Deductive proof in logic formal systems
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B Here's a Statistics problem for game of Polo (or Hockey if you like)
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B Roulette wheel physics and probability
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I Detail of Diagonalization Lemma
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I Fourier transforms in Hilbert Space
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B Another Probability Freak
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I What Are the Axioms of Fuzzy Logic and How Do They Extend Boolean Algebra?
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B How to calculate this conditional probability?
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B How Rare Is Low Smartphone Usage Among Metro Travelers in Japan?
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B A Little Probability Puzzle
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I Need help solving this Existence Algorithm for truth
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A Distribution of Range of Samples taken from N(0,1)
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I Help me understand skewness in QQ-plots please
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I Stochastic calculus: Ito's lemma and differentials
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I Intransitive implication
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A Does this computation satisfy LTL formulas?
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I The reason for lambda calculus being universal
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A Second-order arithmetic
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B Baccarat math and beating the edge
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A Mathematical Connection between Cosmic Expansion and Exponential Growth
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I This fact on 2-dimensional space blows my mind
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A Prove that points which are indistinguishable from 0 exist (using logic)
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A Cannot understand this corollary on surreal numbers
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B Probability a randomly chosen natural number, which is not smaller than 𝑥, is greater than x?
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I Can Ockham’s razor be used to make quick qualitative predictions?
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B Is this a finite argument of the countable infiniteness of the rationals?
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A Calculation of probabilities assuming correlation between events
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I Can you calculate the probability of a complex logic expression?
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I Measurement for uncertainty in nonlinear model
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I Syntactic vs semantic logical consequence (entailment)
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I What is the Definition of a Sequence in Formal Language Theory?
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I On the meaning of logical implication within specific context/models
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I What is the probability that the product of the digits is odd?
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I Use probability without sample space?
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I Modus Ponens deduction rule
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I The normalizing constant in a gamma distribution
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I Is there a "smallest" infinite subset of the naturals?
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B Is the Coin Biased Towards Heads? Statistical Test and Conclusion
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I Countability of binary Strings
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I The set of nonzero values of pmf is at most countable
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B Variance & Standard Deviation
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MHB Likelihood Ratio Test for Common Variance from Two Normal Distribution Samples
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B Choosing an appropriate hypothesis
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I Calculating Statistical Likelihood Knowing Standard Deviations
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B Chi square test (two-sided vs. one-sided)
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B How Can We Compare Two Means to Test the Effectiveness of Diet A on Weight Loss?
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B Comparing Z Scores on Two Different Tests
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B Testing Hypothesis (vaccine)
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B Accident Probabilities: Bicycles vs. Cars vs. Trucks
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How to motivate ‘unless’ = ‘if not’, with etymology?
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I Ways to put n balls in m boxes such that exactly k boxes are empty?
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B Probability of arranging identical objects
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I Why does normal distribution turn into t distribution when variance is unknown?
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B Central Limit Theorem: How does sample size affect the sampling distribution?
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B Understanding the Interpretation of Z-Scores: Insights and Examples
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B Public Opinion Polling for the USA's Election
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I Why do gamblers go broke even when the odds favour them at every step?
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B Concerning the birthday problem in probability
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B Statistical Hypothesis Testing
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B Test of statistical significance
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I What is the Margin of Error in Polls and How is it Calculated?
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B Chi-Square Tests for Homogeneity & Association
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B Bunkbed Conjecture Debunked?
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I Tough Textual Criticism math statistics question
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B Probability of hitting a target
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I Testing multiple hypotheses
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B What motivates Bayes' Theorem?
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B The Probability of an Event
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B Statistical Errors, Type I and Type II
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I Construction of sigma-algebras: a counterexample
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I How far and how close to p=0.05 for statistical significance?
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I Negation of statement involving cardinalities
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I Help us calculate the likelihood an intelligent alien species exists!
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I What Is the Counterintuitive Probability in the Bag of Balls Problem?
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B Does average mean something like "as expected"?
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I Probability of passing a disease down to a child or a group of siblings?
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B Experiment to test for causality
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I What does a 95% confidence level mean in a poll?
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B How are critical values in statistical tests obtained?
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I How do I express that a 100% occurrence in a small sample is low "confidence"?
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How to set up and interpret Chi^2 test results for my data?
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B What Defines a 2-Way Frequency Table?
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I Logical representation of prime numbers
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B Really simple mistake in this combinatorics problem?
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B Are both of these the same thing? (logical NOT and the complement rule)
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I A controversial application of Bayesian reasoning
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A Research about chained functions
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I On injectivity of two-sided Laplace transform
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I How to show these random variables are independent?
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I Understanding extinction probability in simple GWP
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I On the expected value of a sum of a random number of r.v.s.
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B Relative And Absolute Probability (Probability Of Picking A Red Ball)
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I Does the generalized gamma distribution have a mgf?
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I Markov Processes: Estimating Transition Probabilities
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