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Undergrad Conditional Proposition Equivalence
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High School Is the inverse gamblers fallacy true or false?
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Undergrad Fit a Poisson on Gaussian distributed data
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Undergrad Why Does Covariance Matrix Change with Different Functions?
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Undergrad How is Cantor set similar to coin tosses?
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Undergrad How Do You Estimate Covariance in Physics Experiments?
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Undergrad Cantor's Controversies: Resolving Divisive Theories in Mathematics
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Graduate Why Is the Equality in This Spectral Analysis Proof Correct?
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Undergrad Gödel's 1st Incompleteness Thm: Min Arithmetic Req'd?
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MHB Can A∩B⊖∩C⊖ = A∩C⊖ be Equal to A∩B∩C= A∩B?
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Undergrad Venn diagram for the reals and transfinite numbers as sets
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Undergrad Prime Number Theorem: the meaning of the limit
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MHB How Can Logic Laws Remove Implications in Expressions?
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Graduate How is Maxwell's Velocity Distribution Derived and Applied?
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Undergrad Can MANOVA still be used with violated assumptions?
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Undergrad Why is so much well described by the normal distribution?
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Undergrad Euler's Formula for planar graphs - 1 or 2 ?
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Graduate Algorithm creates representative set of data
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Undergrad What is before the first transfinite ordinal, omega?
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MHB Proving Set Operations [Set Theory]
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Undergrad How do you implement the Dickey-Fuller test?
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MHB Prop Logic Proof Help: (pv~q)vr; ~pv(q.~p)/q>r
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MHB Solving Recursion & Strings Problems
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Undergrad Most effective of 1000 groups given mean median mode and N
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MHB How to Approach a Logic Proof Involving Conditionals?
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Undergrad Is it better to use a regression or a classification?
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Undergrad Regression: which parameters to use and how to plot the data
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Undergrad Rejecting a null hypothesis without a z-score or p-value?
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Undergrad Question about notation in set theory
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Undergrad Standard notation needed for binary numbers as exponents
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Undergrad Using interpolation to calculate p-values from t-table?
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Undergrad Sum of Probability Density Function > 1?
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Graduate Using probability to predict my sales amount
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MHB Propositional Calculus: Is Algebra's Problem-Solver? Example
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Undergrad Poisson process approximation error
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Graduate Using Metropolis-Hastings for Sampling from a CDF
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Undergrad Discrete Random Vectors vs. Continuous Random Vectors
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Undergrad What Is the Probability of Rolling Pairs That Sum to Seven with n Dice?
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Graduate Radially distributed Cartesian coordinates
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Undergrad Prove Logical Equivalence of P->(Q or R)
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Undergrad Game Theory: Strategy for game with non-square payoff matrix
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Graduate Smoothness of a value function with discontinuous parameters
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Undergrad How Does the Distributive Law Simplify Logical Expressions?
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Undergrad Mutual information between two time series.
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Undergrad Volatility of investment (/w currency hedging)
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MHB Question in Landau's Foundations of Analysis
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High School Where Did I Go Wrong in Calculating the Probability?
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MHB Creating theorems from the given axioms
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Undergrad Can Conditional Probability Be Solved Generally with PDFs of Variables?
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MHB On induction as you kindly requested (detailed)
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Undergrad Combined measurement uncertainty for mass computation
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MHB Bernoulli Trials and Probability
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Graduate Question about a particular paper on categorical data
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MHB Proving ${\psi}_{n}(x)\le F(n)$ by Induction
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Graduate Given the pdf of Z = X+Y, what's the pdf of X if X&Y are IID
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Graduate Information contained in minimum value of truncated distribution
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MHB Show Inequality: Explain Why $g(k) \geq \frac{3^k}{2k+1}$ in Football Matches
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MHB Group Theory: A Powerful Tool for Real World Solutions
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MHB Combinatorics problem. Discrete Mathematics II
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High School What are the odds of getting a number on a hypothetical infinity sided dye?
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Undergrad Data Plotting Help: Calculating Error Bars for Gradients and Average Gradient
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Undergrad Sphere Probability: Understanding Joint Distribution
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Graduate Deriving the standard normal distribution
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Undergrad How Do Supremum and Infimum Relate When s < t for All s in S and t in T?
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MHB Pattern description: powers of a negative number
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MHB Discrete Probability Distribution
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Undergrad A logical problem for math whizzes
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Undergrad Are Classical Design of Experiments Models Too Limited for Modern Needs?
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MHB Is R an Identity Relation on A?
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Undergrad What's The Discrete Math Derivative Equivalent?
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MHB Choosing a Dissertation Committee: Combination Permutation Dilemma
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Undergrad Supremum inside and outside a probability
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MHB Is My Application of the Neyman-Pearson Lemma Correct?
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MHB Does Conditional Probability Increase with Dependence?
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Graduate Somewhat difficult set theory proof
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Graduate Is this product always greater than these sums?
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Undergrad Joint Density of (X,Y) from R_PDF(r),V_PDF(v)
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Undergrad Uncertainty in Scale Measurement
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Undergrad As time goes on, a given event becomes less and less likely
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Undergrad How do I find out the exact probability of this....
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Undergrad Can you use proof by contradiction in the midst of induction
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High School How to calculate the uncertainity errors
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Undergrad Place pieces on a chessboard randomly until 2 are adjacent
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Undergrad Hypergeometric distribution with different distributions
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Undergrad How Are Permutations Calculated in a Circular Seating Arrangement?
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The linear in linear least squares regression
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Undergrad Why is cf(x) not equal to \aleph_a when x=\aleph_{a} and a is a limit ordinal?
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Undergrad Two-player card game, combined probability
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Undergrad Calculating noise in a data sample - what region to use
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High School Boy/girl riddle (conditional probability)
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MHB Is this transitive closure correct or not?
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MHB Conditional proof for multiple quantifier
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Undergrad Residuals are not 'random' -- How do I resolve?
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High School What does this set notation mean?
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Undergrad What is meant by this notation?
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Graduate Parameterizing conditional expectations (Gaussian case)
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Undergrad Monty Hall - Multiple solutions via direct calculation?
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Graduate Stats: would the sum of the variances be 1 in this case?
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Undergrad Question on level of significance (los)
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Undergrad Average number of times a random walk passes a point
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