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Undergrad Is this logical reasoning correct?
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High School What do superscripts and subscripts in statistical notation mean?
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Undergrad Predicting World Record Mile Time with Limited Training and Population Data
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Undergrad Distribution/confidence question for dummies
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Graduate The cardinality of the set of all finite subsets of an infinite set
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Graduate How Can I Quickly Calculate This Integral Without Integration by Parts?
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Graduate Help with simple proof - comlement of unions.
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Graduate Normal Distribution: Sample Mean & Variance
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Graduate Is Cantor's Diagonal Argument Flawed in Its Application to Positive Integers?
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Graduate Skill vs. Luck: Analyzing Probability in Stock Picking and Portfolio Management
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Undergrad Balls and bins problem from 'introduction to algorithms' textbook
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What Are the Best Card Games That Center Around Probability?
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High School Logical Riddle: How Many Cars Do I Have?
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Graduate What is the significance of strong equivalence in topological space metrics?
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Graduate Is \dot{F} in ZFU an Injection from Urelements to Naturals?
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Graduate What is the Role of Martingale Measures in Pricing Options?
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Graduate What is the Ito-Doeblin Formula?
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Graduate Are all probability spaces topologies?
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Undergrad What is the Significance of the Prime Symbol in Probability Events?
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Undergrad Is r = –0.405 Significant at 5% for n = 22?
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Graduate How Can I Improve My Proof Writing Without Feedback?
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Graduate How is reductio ad absurdum a valid proof method?
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Undergrad Double Monty - Action At A Distance?
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Graduate Correlation functions of spin-2 fields
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Undergrad Exponential Function: Working Through a Coin Flipping Exercise
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High School Valid and Invalid Logic Arguments: Explained
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Graduate Combining Distributions for Accurate Function Timing: A Statistical Approach
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Undergrad Help Proving Commutative & Associative Properties of Unions & Intersections
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Graduate Conditional probability and sum of rvs question
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Graduate Probability of a Confidence Interval
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Undergrad Solving Continuous Interest Formulas: What Causes the Difference?
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Graduate Proof with regards to cumulative distribution function
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Graduate Least-squares estimation of linear regression coefficients
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Undergrad Solve the Tricky Probability Problem: Drawing Cards from a Standard Deck
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Undergrad A complex dice game (at least to me)
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Graduate Are max and min of n iid r.v.s. independent?
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Graduate Bounded Probability Density Function
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Graduate Optimizing Linear Estimators for Minimum Variance: How to Find the Best Weights?
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Graduate Axiom of Choice: Unveiling the Mystery Behind Unsolvable Problems
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Graduate Probability of a given data set given the parameters
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Graduate Dedekind-Cantor Axiom: What's Needed & Why?
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Graduate Maximum of dependent exponential random variables
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Undergrad The Envelope Paradox: What Does Maths Say?
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Graduate Proof of a result inside a lemma?
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Graduate I have variance of response. How can I find it's MSE?
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Graduate Compute Q-Function for Gaussian Random Variables
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Graduate Is Every Asymmetric Relation Also Antisymmetric?
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Graduate How to Define f(X) in Set Notation?
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Graduate Understanding Cantor Set - What Are The Points Between Endpoints?
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Undergrad Solving Set Theory Questions Using Natural Numbers and the Latin Alphabet
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Graduate Understanding Recursively Enumerable Sets in Algorithms
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Graduate Proving a+b=b+a in Axiomatic Construction of Naturals
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High School What is the probability of pulling a Z in Scrabble?
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Undergrad Use of the term pair vs ordered pair
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Graduate Tiling squares on the plane, methods
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Undergrad Elementary Logic Book: Complete Completeness Theorem Coverage
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Undergrad Nonlinear Regression: Getting Started with X to Predict Y
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Undergrad What Is the Probability of Rolling 9 Buncos in 30 Rounds?
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Undergrad Conditional Probability in a card game
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Undergrad Calculating 40% Chance of More Hits: Moneyball Question
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Undergrad What Are the Odds of Hitting A, J, or 2 on the Flop in Poker?
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High School Combination and Permutation questions
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High School What Is the Probability of Picking the Unique Marble in a Handful?
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Graduate How Many Ordered Pairs Meet the Criteria for Ball Arrangement Probability?
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Undergrad Sampling to figure most common color in M&M packet
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Graduate Page 87 of Introduction to Set Theory
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High School Definition of Identity & Equation: Trig-Identity & Relation
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Graduate How Do Mathematicians Interpret the Concept of Set Outside Pure Set Theory?
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Quote by Bertrand Russell on Probability
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Undergrad Is the use of Chi-square test appropriate for this experiment?
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Graduate Random Unit Vector From a uniform Distribution
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High School How many subsets does set A have?
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Graduate Understanding Lebesgue Measure: Example of Open Intervals on [0,1]
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Undergrad How would you prove that constant is a subset of logarithmic?
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Undergrad Could functions form a set based on their relationships?
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High School Help coming up with the right algebra formula to use.
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Undergrad No single optimal strategy in poker
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Undergrad Intuitively, shouldn't variance always be 0?
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Undergrad Regarding Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm
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Undergrad What are the chances of achieving a 42% probability in this scenario?
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Graduate Is this true, if so is it obvious?
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Graduate Expectation for # Exchanges (Quicksort Algorithm)
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High School Equivalent Statements: An Example
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Graduate Upper bound for K-L divergence on discrete prob. space
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Graduate Hidden Markov Modeling and Background needed for Dynamical Systems
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Graduate Maximum of two correlated random variables
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Graduate Question about Cardinality - Is the Universe One-Dimensional?
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Graduate Equivalence Relations and Quotient Sets - Verifying a Claim
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Undergrad Trouble comprehending the empty set
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Graduate Where Can I Find Resources for Learning Set Theory and Topology?
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Graduate Help - Combinatorics cause heavy computing
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Graduate Is the Axiom of Infinity Necessary for Proving 2 + 2 = 4 in ZF Set Theory?
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Graduate Recalling a Theorem in Applied Mathematics: Help Needed | Information Theory
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Undergrad Negation elimination rule in natural deduction
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Graduate Membership Chains: Why Length Is at Most Omega
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Undergrad What Are the Odds of an Event Occurring in Multiple Trials?
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Graduate Terminal Objects: Defining & Identifying
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Undergrad I don't understand the exponential distribution at all
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Undergrad Unable to solve (Gamma Distribution)
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Graduate Find Exact Confidence Intervals: Tips & Techniques
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