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Graduate Difference between a boolean algebra and a complete lattice?
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Undergrad Normal Distribution: Understanding the Formula & Terms
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Graduate What is the Cardinality of Multiple Cross Products?
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Graduate How is the PDF of a Non One-to-One Transformation Derived for n Dimensions?
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Graduate Solving Order Statistics with Three Uniformly Distributed Random Variables
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Undergrad Which to Use: Permutation or Combination for Arranging Company Directors?
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Undergrad How to calculate probability in dicerolls?
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Undergrad Normal (Gauss) Distribution questions
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Undergrad What Is the PDF Given This DF?
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Undergrad What percentage of Ultra battery lifetimes fall between 719 and 1059 hours?
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Graduate Chi-square distribution: proof using induction
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Undergrad Find the Equation for NormalCDF on TI-83/84 Calculator
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Graduate Can X be its own inverse in a residue system?
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Graduate Three questions on injective functions.
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Undergrad That these events are independent?
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Graduate Estimating Vocab Size of IRC Users
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Undergrad Ladder game based on coin flips
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Undergrad Solving Probability Questions: Big Burger Chain Stores
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Undergrad Calculating the Probability of Getting 13 Points in a 13-Card Hand in Bridge
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Undergrad Solving Probability of A & B: Find P(B)
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Graduate Conditional probability density function
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Undergrad Error on using a curve of best fit for extrapolation
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Graduate Cumulative distribution function to probability density function how
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Undergrad Odds of two players getting three-of-a-kind in a game of poker?
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Undergrad Probability of Same Relative Order of n Elements
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Undergrad Overbooked flight probability problem
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Undergrad Winning at Binomial Gambling with $500
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Undergrad An iPod probability question
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Graduate Russell's Paradox: Understanding the Contradiction of Sets
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Undergrad Why Does This Syllogism Lead to a False Conclusion?
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Graduate Stuck on Proofs in Discrete Mathematics?
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Undergrad Can you prove that 1+1=2 or is it an axiom?
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Undergrad The Contestant's Gamble: What is the Most Probable Outcome?
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High School Simple Combinatorics: What are odds of picking same number?
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Graduate Understanding Hadley and Whitin's Reorder Point Formula for Logistics
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Graduate Factorization Theorem for Sufficient Statistics & Indicator Function
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Undergrad Large samples confidence interval for difference in means
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Undergrad How Many Distinct Birthdays in a Room of k People?
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High School Identifying Ball: Red, Green, Half Red Half Green
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Graduate Exponential distribution likelihood
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Graduate Statistics: Consistent Estimators
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Undergrad Learn Chernoff Bounds: Step-by-Step Instructions & Examples
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Graduate Cantor diagonalization argument
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Undergrad Two Events A & B: Is r+s >1 Possible? - Brendan's Query
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Undergrad Emergency, Help With Stats Please
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Graduate Why Is the Definition of Injectivity Formulated This Way?
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Undergrad Statistics question (variance)
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Undergrad Problems with the Multiplication Principle (combinatorics)
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Graduate Bidimensional Bounded Random Walk
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Graduate Registering non-corresponding point clouds
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Undergrad Independent Events Question: Coin Tossing
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Undergrad Independent statistics: Basketball?
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Undergrad Proving the Length of Repeating Blocks in Decimal Expansions
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Undergrad Is It Really Safer to Fly Than Drive? How Do We Measure This?
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Graduate Defining Probability: Beyond Relative Frequency
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Graduate Can we determine the probability of a string using optimal encoding techniques?
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Graduate Optimizing Machine Learning with Irreducible Factorizations of Random Variables
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Undergrad Discrete Math Help for Sarah | Physics Forum
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Graduate Can we accurately determine the randomness of a sequence or process?
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Graduate Is an Uncountable Probability Space with a Full Power Set Sigma-Algebra Viable?
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Undergrad Can the probability of an event ever be exactly zero?
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Undergrad How many Friday the 13ths would you expect in a year?
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Graduate Set of representable real numbers
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Undergrad Expected value and negative binomial distribution
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Undergrad Expected number of rallies to win a game
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Undergrad Mutual Independence for 3 events
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Graduate Finding PDF of Y if X is a Gaussian PDF
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Graduate Defining Randomness: Is It Based on Algorithms or Physics?
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Graduate X1, X2, X3 on a spnning fair wheel three times
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Undergrad Probability: What are the odds?
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Undergrad Probability of N or more from uniform distribution
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Graduate Decomposition of a R.V. into dependent and independent parts
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Graduate What Enables Cantor's Diagonal Argument Construction?
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Undergrad Women passing exams: Help with stats please
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Undergrad Using a one-sided P-value test in a selection
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High School Logic Question: Mathematician's Life Depends on Next Statement to Cannibals
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Graduate Combining independent probabilities in a meaningful way
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Graduate Gambling Math: Probability of Bankruptcy Over N Bets
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Graduate Binary Decimals - Dual Expansion
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Undergrad How Can I Correctly Prove the Demorgan Laws?
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Graduate Subtracting out a random variable
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Nebraska Lottery, odds of 1 in a million?
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Undergrad Quadratic Residues Modulo 3,4,5,7: Patterns & Analysis
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Undergrad Basic quesion about equivalance classes
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Undergrad Proving a^2 or b^2 is Less than or Equal to n
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Undergrad Dice, brassknuckles, and guitar
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Undergrad Proving the Impossibility of Odd Pythagorean Triples
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Undergrad Distribution of Exponential Random Variable (RV)
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Graduate 'random' maps between infinite sets
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Graduate Square Root Of 2 Irrationality Proof
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Graduate R=2^\alepha 0 vs Continuum hypothesis A result in a taste of topology
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Undergrad Difference Between Yi & yi: What Is It?
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High School Functions and Sets: Get Help Understanding Them
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Undergrad Probability that the driver is from G3
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Undergrad Proving Congruence Modulo 5 for Powers of 4 and 9
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Graduate Russell's paradox, ZF and Gödel's undecidability
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High School Calculating Probability of First Toss Being Tail in 3 Coin Tosses
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Undergrad How many mailmen are needed to connect all cities in a random delivery system?
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Are There Any Biostatisticians in this Physics Forum?
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Undergrad Binomial Expansion: Find (n+1)Ck in Terms of nCj
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