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Undergrad Step unclear in Peebbles' Probability Book

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First-order formula that requires an infinite domain

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Undergrad Fair distribution, minimizing envy

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Undergrad How Does Modal Logic Interpret Possibility and Necessity?

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Undergrad Distribution of a sample random variable

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What is the definition of 2^M and how can it be determined?

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Sets so that the cartesian product is commutative

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Undergrad Maximum likelihood ratio test for Gaussian with unknown mean

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High School How to handle probabilities of the number of trials in a Binomial distribution

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Graduate Normal and exponential-normal (?) distribution

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Graduate Fibonacci Heaps in AI NLP QA Model - Suggestions?

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Calculating Probability of Choosing 11 Reds in a Row

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Undergrad Choosing a statistical method to compare six theoretical models with experimental data

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Graduate Martingale, calculation of probability - Markov chain needed?

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Proving First Order Logic in Machover's Text

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Finding the Minimum Number of White Balls in a Container with 27 Balls

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Undergrad How Many Regular Ternary Ordered Trees with Height 3 Exist?

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High School Can PDF values be equal to zero at some given points?

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Induction: Each square can be covered by L-stones

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Proving a permutation identity for prime p

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Graduate Low value standard deviation bias

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Undergrad Birth and death process and Little's law

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High School Why do we multiply two directly proportional things?

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High School "Strength" of the mean of the distribution curve

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High School Does the binomial distribution play a role determining p from data?

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Graduate Is this a Formal (Statistical) Fallacy?

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Are martingales possible with i.i.d. random variables?

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[ASK] Probability of Getting the Main Doorprize

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Undergrad An Elementary Observation Regarding Definability

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Undergrad Meaning of each member being a unit vector

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Undergrad What is the value of n in Reverse Combinatorics problem?

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A Subset of a Graph with No Perfect Matching

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Undergrad Proof using Rule of Disjunctive Amplification

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Undergrad Finding Slope of a Ladder: Is it a Good Idea?

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Compute probability closeness between points in a 2D surface

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Undergrad How to handle the infinity when making a least square fit for the first point?

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Undergrad What Does A ⊆ B Mean in Set Theory?

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Undergrad Probability Density Function of the Product of Independent Variables

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Graduate Reservation price formula in Weitzman's search model with discount factor

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What Is the Success Probability of Merged Bernoulli Processes X1 and X2?

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Undergrad How Should Systematic Errors Be Estimated When Experiment Results Differ?

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Undergrad Calculating Bin Center for Rate vs Energy Plot

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Solving Recurrence Relations Using Master Theorem/Akra-Bazzi

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Discounted price related math problem

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Undergrad Understanding Confidence Intervals for Fit Parameters

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Forecasting metric using regression. Is this a sound approach?

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Sequence - inhomogeneous recursion

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Solving 2 Problems with Exponential RVs: CLT & Probability

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Camera purchase with 20% discount and 8% sales tax

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Undergrad How Should I Calculate Error on the Mean with Identical Measurements?

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Graduate Choosing the Right Interpolation Method for Your Data for Engineers

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Undergrad Generating samples on a 2-D composite binomial distribution

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Undergrad How Should You Approach Fitting Multiple Gaussians to Data with Poisson Errors?

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Mutual exclusivity for three or more events

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Undergrad What is the logical interdependence of mathematics?

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Undergrad Do These Probability Conditions Imply Independence of Events A, B, and C?

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Prime implicants and disjunctive minimal form

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Undergrad Why not correct for known systematic errors instead of quoting them separately

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Undergrad A Sequence T based on the Rule of Three

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Undergrad Calculate the mean, variance, stdev, and CV with 2 methods: check answers

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Undergrad Poisson Error Q: Can I Add Errors in Quadrature?

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Undergrad Question Regarding Linear Orders

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Math for trading/investing conversion?

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Undergrad Is the Likelihood Function a Multivariate Gaussian Near a Minimum?

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Undergrad Conditional probabilities of conditioned probabilities

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Is A-(A-B)=B for all sets A and B?

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Count of Multiples of 2 or 7 in 999

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Undergrad How accurate are the peak values from different binning sizes?

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Undergrad I have a real-life Probability problem

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Undergrad Calculating the expected value of the square of an integral of Brownian Motion

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High School I do not understand Log tables

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Undergrad How to answer a Combinations question

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Graduate Does the empty set have a complement?

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Munkres Topology 2.2b,c: subset and union/intersection equivalences

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High School Equal sets with different symbols?

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Undergrad Cardinality of non-measurable sets

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Undergrad Fitting points z = f(x,y) to a quadratic surface

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Graduate How to characterize mathematical models for comparison

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Find the probability all 5 dice rolls are the same

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Undergrad How to understand this property of Geometric Distribution

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Undergrad Computing error on the mean with individual measurement errors

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Probability of Having a Disease

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Solve the $5000 Annuity Investment Today

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Proving Set Equality: How to Show Subset Relationships?

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Undergrad Configuration probability of partitioned objects

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Undergrad Expected Value of 2^X and 2^-X for Geometric and Poisson Distributions?

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Cdf, expectation, and variance of a random continuous variable

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Undergrad How Can I Calculate the Probability in a Multi-Level Box System?

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Undergrad Weighting data based on the errors

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High School Questions about a normal distribution (discrete to continuous)

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Graduate Why is Picard Iteration Named Fixed Point Iteration?

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High School What exactly is an 'exhaustive event'?

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Probability of Number 4 Appearing in 100 Tosses? - ASK

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Undergrad Mean time between lottery wins and probability of fraud by organizers

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Undergrad Finding coefficient of x^p in product of two power series

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Undergrad Take errors into account for a data fit

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Undergrad What is the addition law for probability with multiple elements?

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Probability of cancer because of microwaves

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