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Undergrad Many-valued inference possible: extant?

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Undergrad T-distribution, standard error - how to interpret

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Undergrad Finding CDF of Maximum of Order Statistics of Random Variables

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Undergrad Distribution of ratio std Normal and sqrt chi squared

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Undergrad What does it mean if assuming p leads to a contradiction?

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Solving 10-14 Equivalence Arguments: R to neg(w v s)

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Undergrad Lowest probability for physical possibility

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Undergrad The CDF from the characteristic function

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Undergrad What is the correct expectation value for this game with redraw?

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Find P(Q') B) P(Q union R) C) P(R')

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Having difficulty finding the elements in each set

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Trouble determining truth value of logic statements

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Undergrad Difference between Constructive proof and Existential Generalization?

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Graduate 2 samples T test in case of non-normal distribution

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Graduate Is Newtonian Mechanics as Correct as General Relativity?

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Undergrad Estimating a mean from games of ruin

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Greedy algorithm to cover houses with antennas

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Graduate Convergence of a subsequence of a sum of iid r.v.s

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Present value of a 10-year lease with 2% annual rent increases

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Graduate How Do Generalized Linear Models Extend Beyond Standard Linear Regression?

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Undergrad Is BIRT visualization software a viable free alternative to Tableau?

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Graduate Is there an optimal distance between measurements for regression

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Undergrad Probability of a random walk reaching the point X; maximal c

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High School Do Irrational Numbers Provide Reliable Seeded Random Number Streams?

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Undergrad Countably Infinite Unions and the Real Numbers: Can They Really Be Uncountable?

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Undergrad Understanding Maximum Likelihood Estimation: Unpacking the Basics

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High School Why do repeated fair coin tosses cluster around 50/50 outcomes?

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What Do H and * Symbols Mean in Epp's Discrete Math Textbook?

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Applying the annuity method - how?

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How to use the RATE function in Excel ?

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Proving that a subset of a countable set is countable

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Understanding induction proof of pigeonhole principle

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Graduate Mutual information of a noisy function

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Undergrad Finding errors in Zorn's lemma proof with partial order and totally-ordered subsets

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Probability of winning dice game

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Undergrad Writing proofs that are more or less formal

  • Terrell
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Correlation between IQ and GPA in ninth graders

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Undergrad Axiom of Choice: Disjoint Family ##\Rightarrow ## Power Set

  • Terrell
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What is the Implication of a Formula in Propositional Calculus?

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Undergrad Regarding cardinality and mapping between sets.

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Puzzle Game - How Many Combinations - How Long To Solve

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Why Can Effectively Enumerated Theories Not Be Effectively Decidable?

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Create an Installment Plan for Mr. Budi's Annuity

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Undergrad System to represent objects in Mathematics

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Undergrad Autocorrelation Error Interpretation

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Staff reduction rate from annualized to monthly rates

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High School How does r∪(-p∩q∩-r) simplify to r∪(-p∩q) ?

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Undergrad Finding the CDF directly from the characteristic function

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Population formula part 1: Birth

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Undergrad Repeatability of necessity: number restrictions?

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What is the simplified form of (p ∧ q) ↓ q using basic propositional logic?

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Calculate Probability: Diff $Y-X \leq 1$

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Graduate Choices of Axiomatic and Number Systems / Sets and Alternatives

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Undergrad Non-countable uniform spaces probability

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Undergrad How can I convert chi-square into a matrix and graph likelihood contours?

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Undergrad Enumerate all 1-state Turing Machines

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Undergrad Understanding Proof of Uniqueness

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Graduate Defining a statistic to test symmetry of a data set

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Undergrad Aggregated Likert scale summary data - z-test?

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Undergrad Equivalence of quantified statements

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Which is the distribution of (X,Y) ?

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Graduate About the “Axiom of Dependent Choice”

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High School Empty domains and the vacuous truth

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Using the axiom of dependent choice in proofs

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Undergrad Is including a known y-intercept in regression data overfitting?

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Undergrad Likelihood of the maximum of a parabola

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Undergrad The difference between a family of sets and an indexed family of sets

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Undergrad Probability of equally likely events

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What are the axioms underlying the definition of sine?

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Calculating Mark-up: Understanding % Increase in Price for Retailers

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High School Why doesn't Cantor's diagonal work for natural numbers?

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Can Categorical Variables be Used in Multiple Regression Models?

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Graduate How is formal logic applied in scientific research?

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High School What is the usefulness of formal logic theory?

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Undergrad Hilbert's omega rule, induction, omega-consistency

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Find Roles Filled w/ Dale or Margaret: 65 Chars

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Undergrad Proof that 1 is an odd number using Peano Axioms of naturals

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Graduate Finding features that make some Sudoku puzzles harder to solve

  • WWGD
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Calculating Your $10,000 Loan Payment

  • Wilmer
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Graduate How to calculate the probability of error in an AWGN channel?

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Finding the shortest Hamiltonian cycle in a complete graph

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Undergrad The characteristic function of order statistics

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Problem understanding relations syntax.

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High School Doing proofs: Setting an expression as a variable

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Graduate Confidence interval for component lifetime from small sample

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How many students take all three languages in a Venn diagram problem?

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Undergrad CDF of summation of random variables

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Undergrad Propagation of Error when Taking the Average of Averages

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Construct the 99% confidence interval estimate

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Writing a statement symbolically

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Graduate What exactly is a "rare event"? (Poisson point process)

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Undergrad What is the Definition and Understanding of Surjective Functions?

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Undergrad What does recursively enumerable mean in Godel, Escher, Bach?

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Undergrad Quasi-Distribution for Non-Physicists

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High School Is this solution to the two doors and truth-telling deputies problem valid?

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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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