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Undergrad Understanding Normalization in Gaussian Inputs
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Undergrad Did I just create a coin tossing paradox?
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Undergrad How Do You Calculate Mean and Median from a Joint Distribution Table?
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Undergrad Survey with dynamic question selection
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Graduate How can background be separated from 1D data with data smoothing/filtering?
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Undergrad Probability that an exact copy of something can exist in a very large universe
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Undergrad Understanding the Role of P-Values in Hypothesis Testing
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Undergrad Replacement of Squaring in Variance Equation: Benefits?
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Graduate Totally ordered partition of a set
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Graduate R-Squared Difference when Dependent variable is $/lb vs Total Dollars?
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Undergrad Significant figures and uncertainty
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MHB David's question from Yahoo Answers
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Graduate Dimension of an intersection between a random subspace and a fixed subspace
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Undergrad What is the product of these two probabilities
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Graduate Adiabatic approximation for joint probability distribution
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Graduate Graph Theory - Connectivity of r-regular graphs
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Undergrad Can the choice of codomain affect the surjectivity of a function?
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MHB What is the number of blue balls in the second urn?
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Undergrad Conditional Probability on Intermediate Event
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Graduate 'Low Level' Error Terms in Expected Mean Square Calculation
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Distribution of sum of discrete random variable
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Graduate What Is the Distribution of the First Failure Time for Two Independent Machines?
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Graduate What Is the Relationship Between the Expected Value of Y and X?
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Graduate Understanding the weak norm and it's notation
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Graduate Problem related to the compound Poisson process (?)
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MHB Sum of 4 integers divisible by 4.
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Graduate Random Variables - Distribution and Expectations
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Graduate Calculating Poisson Uncertainties with Changing Observation Durations
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Undergrad Inequality Truth: X1 < X2 & X > 0
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Graduate How Do You Find the PDF of Z and Calculate Mean and Variance Using MGF?
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MHB Probability that exactly one of three events will occur
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High School Meaning of calculating the mean
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Undergrad Proportion of total variation is accounted for by explained variation
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Undergrad Please give some idea for simplify the following proposition
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High School How to Select a Simple Random Sample of Employees Using a List of Numbers?
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Graduate Delta method fails. Any suggestions how to calculate E(Y)?
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Graduate Eugene Wigner's take on math's role in the natural sciences #1
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Graduate Combining Probability Estimates for Event Prediction
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MHB Another simple propability question
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MHB Simple probability question
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MHB Probability of Consecutive Data Points Rising and Falling in a Saw-tooth Pattern
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Undergrad Questionable statistics formula?
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Undergrad Is Marilyn Vos Savant wrong on this probability question?
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Graduate The class indexed by real numbers is a set?
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MHB Prove that A and B are disjoint
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Undergrad Equivalence Classes Explaination
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Graduate Proving a distribution is a member of generalised exponential family
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MHB Calculating probablity that random subset of population contains duplicates
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Graduate Fano plane concept applied to lottery combinatorics
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Undergrad How Is ASSASSINATION Arranged Without Adjacent S's?
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MHB Mean and Autocorrelation of a Deterministic Function
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Graduate Back-testing Stock Selection - Data Analysis Help Needed
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Graduate Is There a Bijection Between Subsets of Countable Sets?
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Undergrad Help with indirect logic proof please
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Graduate Distribution of Euclidean Distance btwn 2 Non-Centered Points in 2D
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Undergrad Is the Approximation tanh(t) ~ t - t^3/3 + 5t^5 Accurate as t Approaches Zero?
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Graduate Formulating null and alternative hypotheses for a chi-squared test
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MHB Diophantine equation second grade
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Undergrad Can someone explain what is generalized linear model? Examples?
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Graduate Skewed or Noncentral T Distribution
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Undergrad Proving piece-wise function is one-to-one?
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Graduate Arithmetic vs. geometric uncertainties
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Graduate Why is the All but Finitely Many Theorem Important?
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Undergrad Probability function with specification for different range ?
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Graduate Permutation - 7 identical items, 32 distinct containers
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Graduate Convex Functions: Proving g(x) is Convex
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High School Is this survey claim plausible?
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Graduate Closure of relations betweens sets
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MHB Non linear recursive relation....
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Undergrad Number of Tests and Accuracy. Criteria?
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Graduate Can we construct a truth table with infinitely many variables?
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Graduate How Can Equivalence Relations Determine Equal Classes?
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Graduate Is F a Subgraph of Every Spanning Tree of G If It Contains No Cycles?
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Undergrad Figuring out compounding interest
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Undergrad Discover the Mathematical Odds of a Deck of Cards in Perfect Order
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Undergrad Decompostion of conditional probabilities
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Undergrad Number of combinations of 30 dice rolls
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Undergrad Why is chi^2/ndf close to 1 a good fit?
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Graduate Real Numbers: Axioms or Theorem?
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Undergrad Probabilities, 7 items, 4 containers
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Graduate Joint probability distribution of two images
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Undergrad Analyzing a game for fairness? (game theory question)
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Undergrad Conditional Probability without Bayes rule
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Undergrad What fraction of square matrices are singular?
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Undergrad Don't know if a solution is possible. Real world problem.
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Undergrad Urgent Response Needed: Can Partial Means Predict a Regression Line?
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Graduate A problem about levels of confidence
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High School Understanding Percentiles and Their Applications in Statistical Analysis
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Graduate Finding expectation of peicewise mixed distribution density function
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Undergrad Euchre Tournament random seating algorithm
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Undergrad Understanding Equivalence Classes: Even and Odd Numbers in Relation to 0 and 1
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Graduate The power set of the power set of an infinite set
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Undergrad Deceptive Combinatorics problem
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Graduate Confidence intervals, which formula to use
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Graduate Function Definition Without a Single Word
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MHB Number of Ways to Select 3 Men & 3 Women from 5 Married Couples
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Undergrad Regression of linear combination better than just regression
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MHB Answering Your Function Questions
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Undergrad Basic operations on sequences (conventional notation)
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Graduate What is copulas exactly, in probability and finance terms
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