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Graduate Mystery Symbol: What Does a Big Inverted V Mean?
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Graduate Magic Squares & Cubes: Uncovering a 3D Arithmetic Sequence
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Undergrad Combinatorics Redux Followup: 2 Same, 1 Different Toppings on 3 Pizzas
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High School One more combinatorics question
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Graduate Treating Propagation of Errors in $R^n$ to $R^m$ Transformations
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Undergrad Variation of the coupon problem
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Undergrad Creating Words of Length K from {1,...,k}: A Recursive Approach
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Graduate Permutations on 3n Terms and Conditions: Calculating Total Possibilities
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Undergrad Rational and Irrational Number Set proof.
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Graduate Can You Estimate Parameters for a Non-Closed Form Probability Distribution?
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Undergrad Is a gaussian distribution 'like a sine wave'
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Undergrad Second opinion for an Index Problem
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Undergrad Calculate the probability for 2 different digits in 4 cells.
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Graduate Does E(X / Y) = E(X) * E(1 / Y) ?
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Graduate Uptime of Successful Event in 60s Experiments
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Graduate Induction Limitations in Proving Countable Sets: Understanding Analysis
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High School Probability of rolling a 6 on the second roll of a die
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Undergrad Wich test for few events statistic
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Graduate Creating fractals from nothing?
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Graduate Standard Deviation: Formula (8) Approximation Explained
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Graduate What Are Surreal Numbers and Their Binary Expansion?
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Graduate What Are the Different Orders of Infinity and How Do They Compare?
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High School Unsolvable Ball Weights Problem: Help Needed with 4 Balls and Scales
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High School Solve Probability Puzzle: 1 in 25 Chance?
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Undergrad Statistical Test for Differences Between Groups with Varying Sizes
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Undergrad Probability and simultaneous sampling/selecting
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Graduate When are 2 models comparable using an F Test?
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Undergrad Designing an Equitable Points System for Ranking Sports Teams in Tournaments
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Undergrad Solve Logic Problem Using Pigeonhole Principle
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High School Calculating Probability of Withdrawing 3 Discs in Any Order
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Undergrad Standard Deviation of Sets X & Y: s_{XY}=s_{X}\overline{Y}+s_{Y}\overline{X}?
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Graduate Sports Illustrated Jinx : Regression to the Mean
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Graduate Empirical tests on DNA sequence
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Undergrad Discrete and continuous problems
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Undergrad Zinc difecient Mother and birth weight problem
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Undergrad Proving Equivalence Relations with a Given Condition
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Graduate Showing that the following isn't complete
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Undergrad How do I find the equivalent statement to the statement ~(p -> ~q)
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Graduate How Does Halmos Generalize the Cartesian Product in Set Theory?
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Graduate Calculating Conditional Expectation for Continuous and Discrete Random Vectors
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Graduate Is There a Closed Form for This Recursive Probability Function?
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Undergrad Gambling problem/ standard deviation
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Graduate Is the Axiom of the Power Set Redundant in Set Theory?
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High School How Many Socks Must a Blind Man Take to Guarantee a Matching Pair?
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Graduate Can Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Help Solve Advanced Logic Problems?
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Graduate Skew & Kurtosis: Weighting Signficance
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Graduate Fractional Dice - Investigating Discontinuity in Nature
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Undergrad What is the Probability of a Coin Toss Avoiding Lines in 2D Cartesian Plane?
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Undergrad Chop a stick randomly into three pieces, Probablity
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Graduate Transcendentals and definability
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Undergrad Should You Swap or Stick in Deal or No Deal?
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Undergrad Variance and goodness of fit tests
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Undergrad Graph Problem: (n+1) Knots & Edges - How Many Possible Graphs?
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High School Real-Life Examples of Difference Equations, Permutations & Probability
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Graduate Calculating Mean and Variance of a Ratio of Gamma-Distributed Random Variables
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Undergrad How to calculate confidence limits in bernoulli trials with only one outcome.
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Undergrad When not to use the Student t test?
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Graduate Solve Markov Chain Problem: Find Initial Probability Vector p(1)
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Graduate Set Theory to Show Transcendental Numbers Exists
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Undergrad A not false statement is equivalent to a true statement.
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Undergrad Where am I going wrong? (Standard Deviation)
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Undergrad Help with syringe pressure and Students T test
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Undergrad Understanding Linear Codes for Homework
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Undergrad Calculating Probability for Repeated Numbers in Random Number Generation
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Graduate Would measures like skewness or kurtosis magnify uncertainty?
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Undergrad How Do You Solve a Poisson Distribution Problem Where 3P(X=1)=P(X=2)?
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Graduate A question in combinatorics. (perhaps implementation of the pigeon hole principle).
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Graduate Statistics and the Kennedy Assassination witnesses
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Graduate What is the best approach for calculating long-term probability using a PDF?
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Graduate How Do You Model a Random Variable with Random Parameters in Its Distribution?
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Graduate How to Calculate E(XY) for Random Variables X and Y?
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Graduate Calculating E[B(u) B(u+v) B(u+v+w)] with Brownian Motion
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Graduate Understanding Brownian Motion with Weiner Integral and Delta Functions
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Undergrad Logic & Math: Can Equations Express Cause & Effect?
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Graduate Estimating p-value for Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
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Undergrad Dice problem that I can't fully get my head around
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Graduate Calculating Conditional Beta Distribution with Binomial Parameters
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Undergrad Computing Type 1 Error Rate for Coin Test
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Undergrad Sets of numbers and Gaussian distribution
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Graduate How Does Gender Interaction with Experience Affect Salary Differences?
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Graduate Generating function expectation
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Undergrad Is Gender Linked to Brand Preferences According to Chi-Square Analysis?
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Graduate Deriving probability distributions
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High School How Should I Structure a High School Course on Experiment Design and Statistics?
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Undergrad How to estimating purchase amount to achieve servicelevel
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Graduate Describing the distribution of n random variables
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Graduate Solving a Logic Maze: Shortest Path to the Goal
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Undergrad How Can I Calculate Sample Accuracy for a Web Poll?
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High School Switching between exponential and logarithmic form
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Undergrad Multinomial coefficient question.
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Undergrad Conditional probability problem - help need
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Graduate Verifying Open & Closed Sets: Questions & Answers
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Undergrad Can Anyone Help Solve This Statistical Problem?
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Undergrad Buffon's Needle problem (Geo Prob)
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Undergrad Roulette Chasing - betting on the imperfection of the wheel
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High School Proving 1 + 1 = 2: An Exploration
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Undergrad Probability Question Without Knowing the Distribution
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Graduate Goedel's theorem and the AI debate
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High School Math: Inclusive/Exclusive "or" and When?
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Undergrad Solving Variance Problem - Hi All
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