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MHB Induction: Each square can be covered by L-stones
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MHB Help proving prime and permutation
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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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MHB Check Martingale Sequences from i.i.d. Variables | Stats SE
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MHB Need help with probability question. probability of dependent events.
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MHB [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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MHB 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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MHB 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 Help Applying Search Rule Weitzman (1979)
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MHB 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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MHB Solving Recurrence Relations Using Master Theorem/Akra-Bazzi
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MHB Discounted price related math problem
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Undergrad Understanding Confidence Intervals for Fit Parameters
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MHB Forecasting metric using regression. Is this a sound approach?
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MHB Sequence - inhomogeneous recursion
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MHB Solving 2 Problems with Exponential RVs: CLT & Probability
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MHB Percentage & Sales Story Problem
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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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MHB Confused About Mutual Exclusivity with More Than Two 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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MHB Prime implicants and disjunctive minimal form
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Undergrad Confused about systematic errors
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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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MHB 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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MHB Topology Munkres Chapter 1 exercise 2 e- Set theory
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MHB 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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MHB Topology Munkres Chapter 1 exercise 2 b and c- Set theory equivalent statements
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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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MHB 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 Error on the Mean: How to Compute w/ Individual Error
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MHB Probability of Having a Disease
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MHB Solve the $5000 Annuity Investment Today
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MHB 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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MHB 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 Is an Ensemble of Measurements a True Reflection of Probability?
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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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MHB 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 Stuck on the probability of rolling 'p' with 'n' s-sided dice
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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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MHB Probability of cancer because of microwaves
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Undergrad Least squares line - understanding formulas
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Undergrad Selecting two points in [0-1] being the same p>0?
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MHB Help explaining unrounding concepts
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MHB Solve Probability Challenge: Prove 2/3 Chance of Only 1 Winner
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MHB How many people will be in the top 10% in at least one examinations
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Graduate Are Chaotic and Stochastic processes related?
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MHB Does AxA Equal BxB Imply A Equals B?
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High School Can you pick out the random set of points in a plane?
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Undergrad Getting the probabilities right
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High School Is Permutation and Combination Challenging to Learn?
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Undergrad Differences between the PCA function and Karhunen-Loève expansion
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Undergrad Higher-Order Time Correlation Functions of White Noise?
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Undergrad What Are the Odds that Two Random Events Occur at the Same Time?
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Undergrad Data Analaysis -- How to choose the best statistical model to use?
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High School Inevitability - fact or philosophical question?
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Undergrad How Are Irrational Numbers Identified Between Rational Number Intervals?
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Graduate Birth-death processes in small populations
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MHB Transformation of random variable
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