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High School Does average mean something like "as expected"?
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Undergrad Probability of passing a disease down to a child or a group of siblings?
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Undergrad What is a distinct feature of an ambiguous result?
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High School Experiment to test for causality
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Undergrad What does a 95% confidence level mean in a poll?
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High School How are critical values in statistical tests obtained?
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Undergrad How do I express that a 100% occurrence in a small sample is low "confidence"?
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Graduate How to set up and interpret Chi^2 test results for my data?
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High School What Defines a 2-Way Frequency Table?
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High School The Paradox of 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + …
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Undergrad Logical representation of prime numbers
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High School Really simple mistake in this combinatorics problem?
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High School Are both of these the same thing? (logical NOT and the complement rule)
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High School Uncomputable Numbers and Rational Approximations
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High School Sequence formula needed - Keyword --> annuity
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High School Set Theory Question -- Which one is correct?
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Undergrad A controversial application of Bayesian reasoning
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Graduate Research about chained functions
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Undergrad On injectivity of two-sided Laplace transform
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Undergrad How to show these random variables are independent?
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Undergrad Understanding extinction probability in simple GWP
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Undergrad On the expected value of a sum of a random number of r.v.s.
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High School Relative And Absolute Probability (Probability Of Picking A Red Ball)
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Undergrad Does the generalized gamma distribution have a mgf?
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Undergrad How (un)reasonable is graphic linear regression in a monolog graphic?
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Graduate Dirac Delta: Normal -> Lognormal?
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High School A question about cardinalities
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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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High School Are Implication and Equivalence Interchangeable in Logic?
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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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High School Probability - two possible points of view?
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Undergrad How to find this equivalent of the material conditional?
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Undergrad Tennis Probabilities Challenge
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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 Correlation vs causality implied by a graph
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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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High School Part to Whole comparison
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Undergrad Calculating the inverse of a function involving the error function
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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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Undergrad Practice With Proofs? (Algebra, Trig, and Calc)
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High School Should I be treating the data I have as a Population or Sample?
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Graduate How Can We Analyze an Exam with Varying Multiple Choice Options?
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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 Is Averaging Individual Slopes Equivalent to Linear Regression?
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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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High School Can an infinite decimal expansion of a number repeat once?
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Undergrad A variation of the sleeping beauty problem
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High School What theorems are available when using modulo arithmetic?
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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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High School Can I replace ##X_n = i## with ##A## to type less? Rules of math.
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Undergrad Are different interpretations of probability equivalent?
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High School Maze Proof and Statistical Mechanics
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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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High School Is there a relationship between the harmonic mean and the standard deviation?
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High School Does Infinity Times Two Equal Infinity and Other Mathematical Paradoxes?
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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 Criticism of the doctrine of infinity
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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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