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Undergrad Feynman's probability lecture -- a few questions
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Undergrad Identify Factorial: Is It Possible?
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High School Why is k not smaller than zero?
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Undergrad Temporal Database and its Relational Algebra
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MHB Elasticity of Demand problem help
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MHB Mechanical Part Defects in Lot of 500 Pieces
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MHB Percentage Change Logic Question
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High School Need help in permutations and combinations
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High School How many possible relations between two sets?
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Graduate Conditional expectation and covariance of function of RVs
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Undergrad Can these equations be solved analytically?
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Graduate Linear Regression with Non Linear Basis Functions
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High School Math: Probability of Accessing CNN News from 2 Sites w/80% Reliability
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MHB Proving p<=>~p: Two Contradictory and Identical Proofs Explained
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Undergrad Question about the gaps between prime numbers
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Graduate Mean volume of sphere (normal distributed radius)
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High School A whole bunch of dice -- Statistics riddle
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Graduate Qualitative meaning of central moments higher than 4th order
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High School A funny probability problem for the younger ones
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Graduate Chi squared test for data with error
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Undergrad Can you make the induction step by contradiction?
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Undergrad Probability of getting 3 heads or more in 20 coin flips
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MHB Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost
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Undergrad Using prior knowledge to recover signal
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Graduate Integrate data plot, combine errors including correlation
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Undergrad How to compare two data sets with multiple samples
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Graduate Approximation for volatility of random variable
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Undergrad Is this vacuously true? Is both true and vacuously true allowed?
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MHB Calculating the Probability of Winning $25 in a Bag Game
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Graduate Explaining Probabilities in a deterministic world
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High School P → q with NOR operator and Constant F (false)
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Undergrad If Ramsey cardinals exist, all powers using Def are countable?
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Undergrad Distribution function for specific 1D problem
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MHB Which Person (if any) has a greater chance of picking out the Red ball?
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Graduate Help understanding ARIMA Model and ACF
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MHB Proving No Set Contains All Sets Without Russell's Paradox
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MHB Proving A∪B=A∩B iff A=B with Boolean Algebra
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Undergrad Conditional Proposition Equivalence
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Undergrad Proving Set Relationships: A-B ⊂ A & (A∩B)c = A∪Bc
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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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MHB Fractions Word Problem Help: Solving 800/512
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High School Need to find the odds for my game
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MHB Work Rate Problem: 4 Men, 9 Women in 13.388 Days
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Undergrad How is Cantor set similar to coin tosses?
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High School How Much Would You Pay for a Game with Negative Expected Value?
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High School What is the term for all numbers except the natural numbers?
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MHB Solve Probability Problem: An Urn with 5 Black & 4 White Balls
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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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MHB Inequality of logarithm function
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Undergrad Gödel's 1st Incompleteness Thm: Min Arithmetic Req'd?
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MHB Re: Union and Intersection of Sets
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MHB Random picking of 3 digit numbers
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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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MHB How Do You Solve a Word Problem Involving Charitable Donations?
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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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MHB Calculation of odds: probability and deviation
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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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Undergrad Extracting characteristics from time series data
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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 Probability of Combinations and Permutations
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High School Simple probability with high frequency
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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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Graduate Understanding Dedekind's Ketten: A Brief Explanation
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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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MHB Probability of identifying both defective fuses in four or less tests
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Undergrad Regression: which parameters to use and how to plot the data
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MHB Linear Equation Help: Plot, Find Eq., Approx Y for X=5
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High School Proof that non-integer root of an integer is irrational
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Undergrad Rejecting a null hypothesis without a z-score or p-value?
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Undergrad Semi ln plot- uncertainty estimation
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Undergrad Question about notation in set theory
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MHB Prove A minus B Intersect C Equals A minus B Union A minus C
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Undergrad Standard notation needed for binary numbers as exponents
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High School Linear regression with two data sets?
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Undergrad Using interpolation to calculate p-values from t-table?
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Undergrad Understanding the Logic of Quantifiers for Mathematical Proofs
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MHB Stratified Sampling: Sample Size from Greslow High
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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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MHB What Do Q1 and Q3 Represent in a Data Set?
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MHB Two-tailed Test: Rejecting the Null at 0.05 Level of Significance
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