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Undergrad Finding variance from sum of squares and sum of values

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Undergrad Mean/Variance of Uniform Probability Distribution

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Graduate How Does Runtime Affect the Kolmogorov Complexity of a SAT Solver's Output?

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Graduate Is There Always a Rational Between Any Two Transcendental Numbers?

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Graduate Convergence in distribution

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Graduate What is the Uniform Convergence Problem in Stochastic Functions?

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Undergrad Probability Density Function of a Quadratic Equation

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Undergrad Should I Switch My Choice in the Monty Hall Problem?

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Undergrad What, if anything, is necessarily true inequalities called?

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Undergrad Conditional Probability and Bayes' Formula Questions

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Undergrad Question with intersects and complements.

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Graduate Are Ratios of IID Exponential Variables Independent of Their Sample Average?

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Graduate An initial and terminal object of the category 'Set'

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Graduate Finding Cyclic Patterns in Random Constants: A Probability Puzzle

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Undergrad Does {a^(-2)a, a^(-1)} form a set?

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Graduate Find Expected Value of X(n) from Uniform Distribution

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Graduate Term for probability distribution on a partition of a set

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High School Home work with set builder notation

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Undergrad Are these equations correct for linear fitting?

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Graduate The Magic of the Gaussian Function

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Undergrad Probability of Emphysema in a Population - Calculation and Analysis

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Undergrad Proving De Morgan's Law Without Truth Tables: ~(~p∧~q) = ~p∨~q

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Undergrad Order Comparison of Functions: f(n) < THETA(g(n)) for O(2^n) and O(3^n)

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Undergrad Statistics Probability - How do I do this?

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Undergrad Problem with implication and bi-implication.

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High School Is there a law or person that determines what is considered absurd in science?

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Undergrad What is the probability of odd versus even in a football game?

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Undergrad Why is (x,(y,z)) equal to ((x,y),z)?

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Undergrad A hospital researcher has found that the mean length of time that

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Graduate Proving the Log of a Power Rule: log(n^k) is O(log(n)) for any constant k > 0

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High School What is the Probability of Selecting Someone Born on My Birthday?

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Graduate Proof of p^(qvr) <=> (p^q)v(p^r)

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Graduate Square Root of N Law of Random Counts

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Graduate How to determine if distributions are correlated?

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Undergrad Probability of a coincidence - question

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Undergrad What does conjunction of formulas mean?

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Graduate Is the General Binomial Coefficient for Any Rational Value Always Defined as 1?

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Undergrad Probability of consecutive elements in set

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Undergrad Absolute value theorem that I can't convince myself of

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Undergrad Actually, is there a relationship in regression when changing values?

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Graduate Decimal representation of reals

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Undergrad What are some mathematical fields with minimal 'tricks' and logical proofs?

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Graduate Composition of Inverse Functions

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Undergrad What is the conditional rule in propositional calculus and how is it used?

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Undergrad Where does least squares fit among regression methods?

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Undergrad Why Is There Exists X Such That X + Y = Z for All Y and Z False?

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Graduate All math statements of the if A then B form?

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Undergrad Estimating mean cement setting time with confidence intervals

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Undergrad Can numbers be infinitely large or small in mathematics?

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Undergrad Number of positive integer solutions to ΣXi ≤ C

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High School The Student T-Test (Two tailed)

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Graduate Failure of Levene's test for equality of variance

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High School Probability of selecting 2 cards of the same color

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Undergrad Conditional Probability (confusing)

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Undergrad Distribution-free outlier test

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Undergrad Principal Component Analysis: eigenvectors?

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Undergrad Can Gambling and Probability Puzzles Enhance Cognitive Skills?

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High School Is ]-∞, ∞[ the Same as All Real Numbers?

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Graduate What are the endpoints of the interior points in the Cantor Set?

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Undergrad Simple Discrete Structures problem

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Undergrad A small permutation question just don't get the right answer

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Graduate Is There a Reliable Bayesian Alternative to the P-Value?

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Graduate Understanding Mixed Conditional PDFs in Continuous and Discrete Variables

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Graduate Can a union of disjoint open sets span a continuous interval?

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Undergrad Can Any Starting Word in Shakespeare's Texts Lead to Restore?

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Undergrad What does PRESS stand for and why is it denoted e_{i,-i}?

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High School How do you prove 2 + 2 = 4 using only numbers and logic?

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High School Discrete Probability and Distribution to understand the topic.

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Graduate Decidability of -1<1/0<1 using the ordered field axioms and first order logic

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Undergrad How can I use Markov Chains to predict a user's next choice of color?

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Graduate An infinite union of closed sets?

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Undergrad Confidence and prediction interval

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Graduate Random Matrices Literature Review

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Undergrad Continuous Random Variables and Prob. Distribution

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Undergrad Probability of being chosen for specific training durations

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Undergrad What Mathematical Principle Justifies the Equation x=a+b+c?

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High School When to switch from inequality to equality in substitution?

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Undergrad Statistics: Confidence Intervals

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Graduate Ratio of nth elements for almost-all subsets of N

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Undergrad Given a sample of points how could I determine what distribution does

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Graduate Is the Empty Set Bounded? Proof and Contradiction

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Undergrad What Is the Probability of Passing Through Point B on a City Park Grid Walk?

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Graduate Schaeffer's formula induction and probability model

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Undergrad How to filter erroneous reading from distribution of weights

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Undergrad Filter out Gaussian noise from data curve

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Graduate Finding conditional expected values from a normal distribution's mean and std dev

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Graduate Proofs involving functions and sets. Related questions.

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Graduate Why Is the Set of Real Numbers Larger Than the Set of Natural Numbers?

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Graduate Sets with negative number of elements?

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High School Why is probability harder for most people than other math topics?

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Undergrad Sampling random numbers from a distribution

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Undergrad Can Software Predict the Logic of Numerical Sets?

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Graduate Is there a notion similar to a power set for permuted and ordered elements?

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Graduate Why is x*y Not a Subterm of t in Language Terms of Group Theory?

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Undergrad Strange counterintuitive probability problem

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Graduate Cross term gives the autocorrelation?

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Graduate Intersection of all sets in a family of sets

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Graduate Inquiry about axiom of choice.

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Undergrad Why squaring both sides doesn't preserve equivalence

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