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Forget It: Moving On from Past Mistakes

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Undergrad Converting set notation to logical notation with quantifiers

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Undergrad Interest calculated daily compounded monthly

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Undergrad I converting conditional statements into logical notation

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Undergrad Odds of Manchester United vs Aston Villa in FA Cup 3rd Round

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Undergrad Proving Power Set Inclusion: A Simple Proof for A⊆B and P(A)⊆P(B)

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Undergrad Conditional Probabilities Complementary Proof

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Undergrad Which Die to Choose in the Dice Game?

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Undergrad Probability of Forming a Line on a 3x3 Grid with Random Selections

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Graduate Continuity Property for Non-increasing Sets (Probability)

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Undergrad Statistical variation of a flipped coin

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Undergrad Surjection: Is f^-1(X) Surjective? Why?

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Graduate What are the axioms that all of mathematics is built from?

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Undergrad This might be off topic but i with this math problem

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Undergrad Probability Histogram and Central Limit Theorem

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Graduate Proof of a Countability Theorem

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Undergrad What is the formula for creating a set of paired elements?

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Graduate Boolean rings and Boolean algebras

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Graduate Can Ordered Sum of Sets Be Well-Defined in All Cases?

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Undergrad Solving Probability Problems: Normal Distributions and the Chance of B < A

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Undergrad Solving 5V 4E Graph Theory Problem

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Graduate Central limit theorem and poker

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Graduate Why does 1/2 exist in GF(2) when 1+1=0?

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Graduate Finding Joint PDF of Two Exponential Random Variables

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Undergrad Understanding Strong Induction: P(1) to P(n)

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Graduate Someone help me understand how e is irrational proof

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Graduate Is It a Skewness or Kurtosis Issue in My Data Distribution?

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Undergrad Calculating Probability: Sum of 79 Rolls and Exceeding 300

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Undergrad Statistical Analysis of Input Parameters

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Undergrad Probability of reaching a bankroll target with a betting advantage

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Undergrad Are All Math Definitions 'If and Only If' Statements?

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Graduate Potential gap in Cook's theorem SAT reduction from Garey & Johnson

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Undergrad Is Undergraduate Debt Different Between Hispanic and Asian-American Students?

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Undergrad Does probability depend on the amount of information one has?

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Undergrad Magazine pricing to maximize revenue with 140k circulation

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Graduate Calculating Sample Size for an Olympic Sprinter Experiment

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Graduate Solving a Belief Network Problem with Car Starting: A Bayesian Approach

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High School Probability of picking one of several balls of one of two colors

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Graduate Hash Tables + probability question

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High School Can Zero Be Considered an Empty Set in Set Theory?

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Graduate Markov's Inequality: Estimating P(x>=a) in (1,4)

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Undergrad Did I Apply Chebyshev's Inequality Correctly?

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Undergrad Monty Hall Problem: Probability of Winning When Switching Doors

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Undergrad How many ways can 12 people be divided into 3 equal groups?

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Graduate Bijection between infinite bases of vector spaces

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Graduate Finding Class Posterior Probabilities from Linear Discriminant Function

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Undergrad Odds of Street Address Digits Summing to 11

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Graduate How Is the Probability of the First Head on Odd Flips Calculated

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Graduate What is the standard error of the mean in analytical chemistry?

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Undergrad Validating Linear Regression Trendlines: Understanding R-Squared Values

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Undergrad Binomial Expansion of (1+x)^n: Coefficient of x^n

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Undergrad Notation Question: What Does \bigcup^{N}_{1}x_{n} Mean?

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Graduate What Are the Deeper Implications of Gödel's Theorems?

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Graduate Normal vs. LaPlace Distributions: Critical Values

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Undergrad Binary relation in a cartesian product

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Undergrad Statistics - combinations of subsets

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Undergrad Proving if a function is a valid probability distribution

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Undergrad Normal assumption with least squares regression

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Graduate An alternative to Metropolis Monte Carlo

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High School An increase of $0,15 on a price of 2,50 is an increse by a fraction

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Undergrad The correct answer is A only if B means the same thing as A implies B.

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Graduate Checking Stationarity of ARMA (2,1) Model

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Undergrad Understanding Normal Distribution Curve for Quality Control in CNC Machining

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Graduate Topology: Bijection with Open intervals

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Graduate Can a large number of monkeys write Hamlet?

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Undergrad Probability two people wear the same shirt

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Undergrad Finding Patterns in Multiple Dice Rolls: A Simple Solution

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Graduate Correcting Autocorrletation in a Model with Dummies

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High School Minimum percentage of male swimmers using tennis courts

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High School How many 4-digit numbers have a digit repeated twice or thrice?

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Undergrad Calculating Standard Error for Sample Size

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Graduate How is the posterior distribution derived in Bayesian inference with Gaussian priors?

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Undergrad The Prosecutor's fallacy and probability

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Graduate Proving the Intersection of Functions

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Graduate Relation between Catalan numbers

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Undergrad Fermi estimation: steps to walk from New York to Los Angeles

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Undergrad PCA and variance on particular axis

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Undergrad How Do You Calculate y1 and y2 for a Given Probability in a Normal Distribution?

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Undergrad How Do You Determine the Constant in a Piecewise Probability Density Function?

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Undergrad What is the meaning of a unique inverse for a bijective function?

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Undergrad How can I calculate the PMF from a given CDF?

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Graduate Conditional distribution of multivariate normal with inequality constraints

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Undergrad Puzzling Prob Stats / Bayes problem

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Undergrad Testing if μ₁ = 2μ₂ with known means and variances

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High School How to solve for i in compounding interest formula A=P(1+i)^n?

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Undergrad Finding the Probability of Picking a Family Member's Name: A Case of Two Tries

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Undergrad What is the Probability Mass Function

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Undergrad Understanding Normal Distribution in Probability and Statistics

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Undergrad What is the expected time between bites in a jungle full of bees?

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Undergrad Probability of Sum in 3-Side Die: Answers Needed!

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Graduate Exponentials as eigenfunctions in LTI Systems

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Graduate Convergence of Infinite Series with Increasing Denominators

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Graduate Correlations with combined sums and products

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Undergrad Finding best fit distribution and its Parameters

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Graduate Prove Linear Correlation: m/sqrt(m^2) = sgn(m)

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Graduate Can Negative Probabilities Revolutionize Traditional Probability Theory?

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Graduate Proving Non-Empty Finite Sets with Induction: A Challenge

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Undergrad What is the difference with inequalities?

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High School How Many Significant Figures Are Correct in Rounding 6.0221367?

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Undergrad Implications from propositions A => B, A <=> C and C => B

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