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Graduate Does a Probability of 1 Really mean a Dead Cert

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Graduate How are Natural Numbers Constructed from the Class of All Finite Sets?

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Undergrad Counting combinations of 10 mines on an 81-square minesweeper board

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Prove that lim y->infinity F(X,Y) (x,y) = F(X)(x)

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Undergrad Converting data to a specified range

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Number of Partitions of n into j Parts not Exceeding m?

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The amount to save annually should be approximately $18,365.09.

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How to Determine the Joint Distribution of X+Y and X-Y?

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Graduate Do choice functions have the cardinality of the largest set in their domain?

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Graduate How do you prove that this is a Martingale

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Finding Shortest Path in G: Dijkstra's Algorithm

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Total order relations on a finite set

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Undergrad What is Symbolic Logic Useful For?

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Undergrad Finding P(Tree A | at least one bad apple in package)

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Proving of Y=g(X) as a continuous random variable

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Self-Consistency of Sequence of Statements: Which is True?

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Undergrad What guarantees the 'greater than' sign between r/(r+b)>(r-1)/(r-1+b)?

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Background mathematics for systemic risk and copula papers

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Uniformity of Poisson arrivals in random interval

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How to show a graph contains no Hamilton cycles?

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Finding Hamilton Cycles by hand

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Graph Theory Proof: Connectivity of G Proven

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Undergrad Beale Conjecture Reduced to Practicality?

  • Skip Hawley
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pdf of Y-X where X is uniform on [0,Y] and Y is geometric

  • hemanth
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Constructing events A and B where Pr[A∩B]≥9·Pr[A]·Pr[B]

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Mean average with 24 students at 78% and one student at 67%

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Probability that 12 have purchased yellow gold diamond rings

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Expected value of a dice and card gambling game

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Conditional independence problem

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Uniform [0,1] Squared Probability Calculation

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Graduate Does constantly removing elements from a set produce the null set?

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Graduate Have you heard about this kind of test of hypothesis

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Finding the distribution of Y = cX+d when X is uniform(0,1)

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Statement of a theorem due to Bondy.

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Undergrad Probability of "2,3 or 4 Machines Not in Use

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Graduate Can one call a linear order a lattice? If not

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How many combinations of natural numbers add up to another?

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Graduate How can we compute averages over infinite sets of functions?

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Finding the probability function of Z = XY from two coin flips

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Establish Whether populations have equal variance

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Cardinal of P(S) (Adam's question at Yahoo Answers)

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Undergrad Sample size for testing warehouse picking accuracy at 98%

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Undergrad Is My Probability Mass Function Correct Given the MGF?

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Graduate Finding the Minimum Mean Square Estimator for Scalar Parameter w

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Graduate Gödel's incompleteness wrt weakend versions of ZFC

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Probability of forming a triangle

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Graduate Conditional Probability - Markov chain

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Undergrad What is the Expected Value Operator and How is it Calculated?

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Nabeela Zubair's Question on Facebook (Counting Problem)

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Permutation of Letters: 10 Choose 4 with 4 Letter Gap between P and S

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Graduate What's the Distribution of the Maximum of IID Variables When m is Large?

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Undergrad Size sample required to construct a 95% C.I. with margin of error

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Graduate Set creation by additive and subtractive methods

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Graduate Need help with 2 advanced stat questions

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Undergrad Understanding R Squared Regression for Josh

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Undergrad Is My Calculation of Tire Fault Probability Correct or Is My Teacher Right?

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Graduate Proving variance with moment generating functions

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Graduate Can a theorem be true but unprovable if it requires uncountably many symbols?

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Undergrad What is the point of a partial order?

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Graduate Proof of the existence Godel Statement (With no numbering)

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Undergrad Started learning proofs - need some feedback

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Undergrad Why does 2ab become −2ab when moved in the inequality proof?

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Graduate Exponential of Gaussian Distribution

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Undergrad What's the difference between Bell curve and Gaussian distribution

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Graduate Summation Simplification for Neumerator of Beta Estimator

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Graduate Fit to (orthgonal?) polynomial function

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Graduate Shannon's recurrence for channel capacity with symbol durations

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Graduate Showing tha a random variable is a martingale

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Graduate What's Wrong with This Proof About Unions? (A Statement in Halmos)

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Graduate A proof that a computer cannot generate a truly random number?

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Graduate Limiting dist for sum of dependent and non-identical Bernoulli vars

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Z = X/Y independant continuous random variables

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Graduate Error on integrated histogram bins with Poisson statistics

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Graduate Average distance between random points in 2D

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Graduate Can a set be defined by a circular criterion involving its own elements?

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Graduate Uniform distribution on the n-sphere.

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Undergrad Bayes' Theorem: Dividing P(B|A)*P(A) by P(B) for Accurate Probability

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Undergrad Counting distinct arrangements when letters repeat

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Undergrad Calculating lottery probability

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Undergrad Is Statistics Just a Game of Puzzles and Probability?

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Calculate pay off debt with minimum payment only?

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Graduate Can Sets be Defined from Peano Axioms Alone?

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High School Is the Equation P(A' U B) = P(B) + P(A' U B') Correct in S1 Statistics?

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Undergrad Confidence intervals for two separate variables?

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Undergrad Probability of coin flipping streaks.

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Undergrad Calculating the standard deviation of the standard deviation

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Graduate Excluded middle and self-reference

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Graduate Does Covariance Remain Unchanged Under Variable Transformations?

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Show that φ(X_t) = exp(-2μX_t) is a martingale

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Undergrad Need a real life example that satisfies the property?

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Undergrad Test Hypotheses with sample of Binomial RV's

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Graduate Why divide by total population in SIS contact rate formula

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Graduate Pdf of weighted uniform random variables

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Undergrad Hypothesis test for binomial(5,θ/5) with sample 0,1,3,3

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Graduate How Can I Adjust Regression Analysis for Commuting Patterns?

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Graduate Generative vs discriminative model

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Graduate Is the Derivation of the Relationship Between CDF and PDF Correct?

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Undergrad How to calculate the Z value from the Mann-Whitney U statistic

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Graduate Computing for any general function whose variable is a gaussian

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