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Undergrad Does the generalized gamma distribution have a mgf?
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Undergrad Markov Processes: Estimating Transition Probabilities
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Graduate Area distribution of inscribed triangles in a circumference
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Undergrad Expected value of X~Geom(p) given X+Y=z
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Undergrad Proof request for best linear predictor
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Undergrad On Jensen's inequality for conditional expectation
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Undergrad Is this conditional expectation identity true?
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Undergrad Help understanding conditional expectation identity
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Undergrad Total Winning Saddlecloth Numbers
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Undergrad Adding random numbers: Tolerance analysis
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Undergrad Observational Studies: What to Believe
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Undergrad On transformation of r.v.s. and sigma-finite measures
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Graduate Mapping and Recovering Combinations: A Challenge in Combination Theory
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Undergrad Group extensions (question about definitions)
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Undergrad What branch of electrical engineering uses a lot of probability?
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Undergrad How to implement proper error estimation using MC
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Undergrad On pdf of a sum of two r.v.s and differentiating under the integral
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Undergrad How to correct (adjust) Amazon ratings based on the number of reviews
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High School Large Scale Data Collection
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Graduate Axiom of choice: Replacing a strong condition with a weaker condition
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Undergrad Airplane crash probability fallacy
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Undergrad How to find this equivalent of the material conditional?
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High School Help answer student question about infinity?
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High School Creating a simple weighting and scoring system
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Undergrad Citation needed: Only multivariate rotationally invariant distribution with iid components is a multivariate normal distribution
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Graduate Karhunen–Loève theorem expansion random variables
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Undergrad Time Series Models vs Models Used for Cross-sectional Data
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Undergrad How to determine if a set is a semiring or a ring?
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High School Do All Digit Sequences in Pi Occur Equally Often?
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High School Should I be treating the data I have as a Population or Sample?
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Undergrad Supremum of a set, relations and order
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Undergrad Contrapositive of theorem and issue with proof
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High School Binary variables (Absolute values)
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High School Why did it suddenly become subtractive? (Example of Bayes’ Theorem)
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Undergrad How Many Unique Games of Commander Can Be Played?
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Undergrad A variation of the sleeping beauty problem
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MHB Winning Tennis with Probability 0.3 and 0.7
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Graduate Concrete examples of randomness in math vs. probability theory
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Undergrad Are different interpretations of probability equivalent?
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High School Logic Problem: Figuring Out How Many Apples Each Man Ate
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Undergrad How to Express Non-regular Prior Distributions by Mathematical Formula
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Undergrad Stationary time series with seasonality...
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Undergrad Probability, observers and the multiverse
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Undergrad Normality of errors and residuals in ordinary linear regression
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Undergrad Time series analysis and data transformation
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Undergrad Desirable estimator properties...
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Graduate Omniscience principle and generic convergent sequence
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Graduate Putting upper bounds from a null result
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Undergrad Computing the expectation of the minimum difference between the 0th i.i.d.r.v. and ith i.i.d.r.v.s where 1 ≤ i ≤ n
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Undergrad Statistical modeling and relationship between random variables
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Undergrad The Nuances of Truth in Axioms and Premises
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Undergrad Nonlinear Least Squares or OLS for Nonlinear Models?
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Undergrad Sampling theory and random sample
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Undergrad What to do with biased estimators if we don't know the bias term?
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Undergrad Bivariate correlation does not always catch multicollinearity
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Undergrad Looking for the most suitable distance for binary clustering
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Undergrad Random variable and elementary events
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Undergrad Regression line with zero slope and average as best prediction
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Undergrad Stopping Time in layman's words
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Graduate Extended version of Cochran's Theorem
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Graduate Parameter optimization for the eignevalues of a matrix
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Undergrad Variation of the Liar's Paradox
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Undergrad What Are the Advantages of Linearizing Cubic Data for Analysis?
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Graduate Are these results possibly the outcome of a probabilistic calculation?
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Graduate Optimizing Grouping of People for Teamwork
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Undergrad Time series and why would we remove seasonality and trend?
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Graduate Distribution of sum of two circular uniform RVs in the range [0, 2 pi)
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Undergrad AI Detection - Phase 2: finding hypotheses
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Undergrad Finding the pdf of a transformed univariate random variable
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High School AI Detection - Phase 1: sample collection
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Undergrad Vector visualization of multicollinearity
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Undergrad Smoother EWMA that mean-reverts
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Undergrad What are the commonly used estimators in regression models?
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Undergrad What Are the Key Differences Between OLS and GLM Models in Statistical Analysis?
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Undergrad Error bars in Excel (standard deviation, standard error, percentage)
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Undergrad How do leaf nodes behave in regression decision trees?
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Undergrad Probability paradox: P(X=x)=1/n >1
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Undergrad Is there a better way to calculate time-shifted correlation matrices?
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Graduate Continuum Hypothesis: Truth and Provability in FOL
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Undergrad Linear Regression, Population, Sample
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High School Limitations of Multivariate Linear Regression
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Undergrad Why linear in linear regression?
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Undergrad Variation of Monty Hall problem
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Undergrad Looking for advice in clusterization
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Undergrad How many possible plays in first 10 moves of a game of Chess?
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Undergrad The covariance of a sum of two random variables X and Y
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High School Vacuously true statements and why false implies truth
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Undergrad Distribution of Sum of Two Weird Random Variables....
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Undergrad Parameters of a distribution of a physical variable
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Undergrad The third central moment of a sum of two independent random variables
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Graduate Calculation of average damage using analytical methods
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High School How best to statistically analyse a PMT signal?
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Undergrad How to obtain moment bound from the importance sampling identity?
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Undergrad Basic Probability Theory Question about Lebesgue measure
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Graduate Does Maximizing Likelihood Over Truncated Support Increase Probability?
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Undergrad What is the correct definition of measurement uncertainty?
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Undergrad Measurement Error Analysis in Gaussian distribution
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Undergrad How is it possible to win one-in-infinity odds?
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Undergrad Confused about error propagation
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Chernoff Bounds using importance sampling identity
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