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Undergrad Explaining Enumerable: Understanding the Concept in Godel, Escher, Bach
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High School What Single Question Reveals the Door to Freedom?
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Graduate Sum of independent random variables and Normalization
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High School Can Characteristic Functions Determine CDF Without Defined Moments?
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High School Probability and Death Sentences
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MHB Classicists' Favorite Epic Poets: Survey Results
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MHB Hypothesis testing - Winning a game
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Undergrad Beta Distributed Random Variates
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MHB Performance of students - Hypothesis testing
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MHB Which is the mean value of the sample?
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MHB Estimating the Mean Christmas Spending: A Comparison of Two Sampling Methods
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MHB A question about the law of total probability
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MHB 3 newspapers- a question about Inclusion–exclusion principle
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MHB Hypothesis Test for Public Transport On-Time Claim with Example
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Undergrad Probability function for discrete functions
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Graduate Simulation from a process given by "complicated" SDE
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MHB Question -Sample space in probability
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MHB A question about Bayes' theorem
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MHB What is the formula for determining the length of a confidence interval?
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MHB Is my calculation of the confidence interval for $\mu$ correct? (Wondering)
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MHB Probabilities about length of songs
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MHB Geometric Series: Find Sum of Infinity - 9-32-n
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Undergrad Sampling Weights: Understanding Multipliers & Aggregates
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MHB How Many Cafes Should Be Surveyed for Accurate Daily Turnover Estimates?
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Undergrad Proof of the Halting Problem's Unsolvability
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MHB Probability that we get totally at most 30 times "head"
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Undergrad Reading the vertical data in a frequency histogram polygon
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MHB Proving \sum_{r=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{k(k+1)} = 1 Using Deduction
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MHB Solve Sigma 1/(k(k+1)): Step-by-Step Guide
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MHB Solve Geometric Series: Find n from s=9-32-n
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Undergrad Understanding the transformation of skewness formula
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MHB Find the nth Term of a Series: 9-3^2-n
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MHB What Is the Expected Value of Y Squared for a Transformed Uniform Variable?
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High School Combinations of n elements in pairs
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Undergrad Combinatorics & probability density
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Undergrad Small Reduced Chi Squared interpretation
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MHB Greatest probability - Expected value
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High School What is the sum of multiple probabilities
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Undergrad Determining functional relation of two dependant variables
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MHB Deducing Sigma (2r)^3 = 2n^2 (n+1)^2 | n, r=1
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High School Why is the mode usually not as useful?
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Mathematical Induction with Sigma notation
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Unbiased estimate of a parameter in the Rice distribution
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High School Conditional Probability, Independence, and Dependence
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MHB Expected Value of Gambling Strategy - Martin's Winnings
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High School Given a success rate of 1% and 100 tries....
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Undergrad Cantor's decimal proof that (0,1) is uncountable
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MHB Should You Play? Analyzing a Game with Probability & Strategies to Fix it
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Undergrad Are Time-Travel and Logical Paradoxes Connected?
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Undergrad Sampling from a multivariate Gaussian distribution
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Undergrad The Smallest Non-Computable Busy Beaver Number: Is it Knowable?
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Undergrad Odds ratio and percentages.... absolute beginner
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Undergrad Probability density of an exponential probability function
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MHB Deck of cards without replacement
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Graduate Interpreting a paper on spectral analysis
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MHB Maximal Elements in a Bounded Set
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Undergrad How to plot a scaled lognormal function
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MHB I would like to know for example how I prove or disprove this sentence ?
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Graduate Poisson/exponential process with step-wise decreasing rate
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MHB How Should I Start My Probability Question to Get the Best Help?
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High School Problem in Counting - Number of Passwords
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Graduate Error estimation in linear regression
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MHB How will the doctor decide to operate on Mr. Peter?
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Graduate Value at Risk, Conditional Value at Risk, expected shortfall
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Graduate How is Inaccessible Cardinal Written?
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High School Probability of loto hitting a specific place
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MHB Truth Table for P(x) & R(x), ~Q(x) & P(x) in U
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MHB Validating Statement Using Truth Tables: Failed Basket-Weaving 101
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Undergrad An easy proof of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem?
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MHB Finding the Set of Ordered Triples of a Ternary Relation on A
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Undergrad ANOVA and Linear Regression Resource
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MHB Set Theory Questions (check if right)
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High School What is Reverse Mathematics and how does it relate to traditional mathematics?
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Graduate Robustness of time series analysis
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MHB Probability that someone has the disease
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MHB Complement of independent events are independent
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MHB Probability: twice the same number
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MHB One to One Correspondence vs One to One function
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MHB Predicate logic with multiple quantifiers
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Undergrad How Many Permutations Exist Where M Equals K on Cards?
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Graduate Interpreting Chi Squared .... backward
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MHB Probabilities involving dynamic sample space
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MHB Recurrence Relations - Determining a solution of the recurrence relation
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Undergrad Multilinear Regression. Interpreting "Insignificant"p-values
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MHB Solve Fibonacci Squares: Formula for Difference of Squares
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MHB How Do Random Walks Affect a Tourist's Position in New York City?
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MHB Natural deduction (negated implication)
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MHB Valid Arguments: Sets Explained
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Graduate Linear regression with discrete independent variable
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Undergrad Partitioning a whole number in a particular way
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Graduate Is there a decidable set theory?
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Undergrad Proof of Countability of ℚ: Bijection from A to ℕ
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Undergrad Question about simplifying Sigma notation
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Undergrad How do I determine if improving a fit is significant?
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Undergrad Average profits and losses on a roulette table
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Undergrad Logistic Regression: Estimating Probability of Survival
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MHB Can You Define the Recursive Equation for Strings of 1s and 2s with 3 Mod 4 1s?
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Undergrad The webpage title could be: Is Occam's Razor Applicable to Modeling Data?
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Undergrad Divisibility of bounded interval of reals
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