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MHB Probability of Getting 3 A's & 2 B's in 5 Rounds
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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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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 Solving a Confusing Word Problem: Measuring Justice After Court
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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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MHB How Does Cigarette Consumption Relate to Heart Disease Deaths?
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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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MHB Help with Combinations Problem: 8 Contestants, 8 Games
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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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Undergrad Question about fitting periodic data
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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 Calculate Capitalised Cost for Perpetual Service in PrivaPower Ltd
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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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MHB What is the Probability of Getting Three Heads in 30 Coin Tosses?
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Undergrad How can we increase the second moment (moment of inertia) in a physical system?
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High School $20000 at $0.20 martingale betting
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High School What are the odds of getting a number on a hypothetical infinity sided dye?
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MHB 95% Confidence Interval for Staying Awake at UMUC
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Undergrad Percentiles and quartiles in the same graph
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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 Log(0.0058) is -2.23657, integral part is -2 but not -3
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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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MHB What is the net present value of annual maintenance cost for a delivery vehicle?
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Undergrad Approximating and regression method
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MHB Need help on how to input invnorm and normalcdf using large numbers
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Undergrad Randomness as a function of the observer's knowledge
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MHB What Are the Odds of All Canadian NHL Teams Missing the Playoffs?
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MHB What is the Probability of Knee Problems Requiring Full Knee Replacement?
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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 How to Calculate the Future Value of Geometric Annual Annuity?
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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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MHB Binomial Experiments: Find Probability of x=5, x>=6, x<4
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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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MHB What is the expected outcome of a pick 3 lotto if a ticket costs $\$2$?
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MHB Choosing a ball at random from a randomly selected box
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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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Undergrad Error propagation of exponentials
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Undergrad I finding the EV of the possible outcomes
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MHB How do you prove that a function is bijective?
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Undergrad How can any measure of a physical quantity be irrational?
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Undergrad What is the difference between a well-defined relation and a function?
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High School Calculating Probabilities of a dice roll
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Graduate 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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MHB Consider the following probability mass function of a random variable x
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MHB Continuous random variable question
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MHB Question regarding a probability mass function of a random variable
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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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MHB What is the expected outcome of a game of chance with varying probabilities?
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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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MHB Help with Probability, Roulette, and Population Statistics
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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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MHB Estimating the Probability of Earning a Certain Amount in a Weekend as a Waiter
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