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High School Difference between chi-square tests for homogeneity and association

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High School Bunkbed Conjecture Debunked?

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Undergrad Tough Textual Criticism math statistics question

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High School Probability of hitting a target

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Undergrad Testing multiple hypotheses

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High School What motivates Bayes' Theorem?

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High School The Probability of an Event

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High School Statistical Errors, Type I and Type II

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Undergrad Converting an ARMA process to a transfer function

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Undergrad Construction of sigma-algebras: a counterexample

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Undergrad How far and how close to p=0.05 for statistical significance?

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Undergrad Negation of statement involving cardinalities

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Undergrad Probability of intelligent aliens coexisting with humans using Fermi Paradox assumptions

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Undergrad What Is the Counterintuitive Probability in the Bag of Balls Problem?

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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 Why Grandi's series 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + … sums to 1/2 in complex analysis

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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 Are there infinite infinities of infinities?

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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 Conditional expectation identity with multiple conditioning variables

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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 Algorithm to map combinations to indices and reverse

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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 Finding a knot in an infinitely long rope

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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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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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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 Can a stationary time series have 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 How BLUE estimators relate to hypothesis test results

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Graduate Omniscience principle and generic convergent sequence

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