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High School Inverse Transformation from Response Surface

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High School How to prove the associative law of symmetric difference?

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Graduate Curse of dimensionality - what is it that grows?

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Undergrad What are the statistics of probability of dying today vs age?

  • iVenky
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Find Proofs for the following 5 propositional logic statements

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Basic Inequality Prove: $A\leq B\wedge B\leq A \Rightarrow A=B$

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Undergrad Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition confusion

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Find total number of republications

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Help with Converting Sentences to FOL

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Relationship between hypothesis 1 and 2 in rules of inference

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How Do We Find the Logical Negation of Statements?

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Undergrad A claim in measure theory which seems flawed to me

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Undergrad Why Not P(A)*(1-P(A)) for Probability?

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Can We Prove the Inductive Set Contains Only Natural Numbers?

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High School Understanding Modus Tollens: Deductive Reasoning with an Example

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Undergrad Sampling bias in estimating gene mutation proportion

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COVID-19 in a Small Town: Probability of Infection

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Solving the Fractional Knapsack Problem - Wave and Thinking

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Undergrad What would the pdf look like for 'N' chess computers with the same rating

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Master Theorem-Relation of the two functions

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Graduate Good Examples of Causation does not Imply Correlation

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High School Introduction to logic - website?

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High School Probability of n events over a time period

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De Morgan Rules - Logical statements

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Draw a NAND-gate to get that output

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Compose Functions: True/False?

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Satisfying S∘S=S: What Are The Conditions?

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Translate the statements into set inclusion

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Log likelihood and Maximum likelihood

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Which statements define an onto function correctly

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Graduate Frequency estimation - Minimising the number of samples

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How many reflexive relations on set A with 4 elements?

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Undergrad Why replace epsilon with epsilon over supremum sum in supremum proof

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Undergrad Quine's New Foundations and the concept of a Universal Set

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How Do You Calculate a Z Score for Toothpaste Effectiveness Testing?

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How Many Elements Are Found in Each Mathematical Set?

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Undergrad Is There a Simpler Way to Calculate the Probability of a Needle Crossing a Line?

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High School Stats: Determining significance level in problem

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Undergrad Distributivity/Inheritance of Max Likelihood Estimators

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Word problem for winning percentage

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Undergrad Principal Component Analysis with dependent variable?

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Undergrad Two vectors and two perpendicular lines

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Combinations / Sets of objects

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Undergrad Probability that two points are on opposite sides of a line

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Undergrad How to Get Final Fisher Matrix from 2 Matrices

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High School Solving a RNG Problem: What is the Expected Value of N?

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Undergrad Failure rate for a uniformly distributed variable

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Summation and product notation rules

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Undergrad Tell me how scientific journals scrutinize statistical work

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Undergrad Radon-Nikodym Derivative and Bayes' Theorem

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Graduate Dense set vs no isolating points

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Finding per square foot land value with zoning percentages

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High School Simple probability question: Suppose P(B|A)=1. Does that mean that P(A|B)=1?

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Undergrad Cardinality of Unions of Powersets

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What is the final pressure of helium and neon gas mixture in this case?

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High School Different sample methods in statistics

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Undergrad Direction of logical implication in bijectively related sets

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Undergrad Expected value of a variable and its reciprocal

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High School Are proofs needed for definitions? Conditional probabilities

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Undergrad Proving Probability of Union with Indicator Variables in Three Events

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High School Difference between if-then and if and only if

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Understanding Positive Asymmetry in Price Distribution

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Relative Variance: Calories vs Sugar

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Undergrad Linear regression with error term

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Undergrad Understanding different Monte Carlo approximation notations

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Finding remainder for one dollar bills in change

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Undergrad Conditional distribution of geometric series

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Can Predicate Properties Be Neither True nor False?

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Undergrad How do I compute the cumulative probabilites of multiple bell curves?

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Graduate Union of sets and indexed sets question from Vellerman

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Undergrad Question regarding quantifier statement

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Undergrad How do you calculate the probability without using the complement?

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Undergrad How Does Money Redistribution Affect Poverty Levels in a Simulated Economy?

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Sequence of b_{k} with Explicit Formula: Proving by Math Induction

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High School What does it mean that G is only a function of certain variables?

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High School Diagonal argument and repeating sequences in rational listings

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Undergrad Computer languages as examples in formal logic

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Graduate Feature Selection, Information Gain and Information Entropy

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Undergrad How to prove the Cauchy distribution has no moments?

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Undergrad How to find the moments using the characteristic function?

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Undergrad Does the definition of cardinality assume distinguishability?

  • Stephen Tashi
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High School One thing I don't understand about Cantor's diagonal argument

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Undergrad An Alternative Variance Formula

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Undergrad Are there unprovable theorems with unprovable unprovability?

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Graduate The meaningfulness item on math probability

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High School A given integer can be written in how many different ways?

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Graduate Can this be rearranged to solve?

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Undergrad Looking for a formula (how many possible connections between 2 sets of objects?)

  • Steven Ellet
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High School Why use 16 instead of 17 in hypothesis testing rejection region

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Undergrad Limit inf < Limit superior(proof)

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High School Choosing the number of trials when the data stream is unlimited

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High School Dice calculation of p(7), two different values?

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Attempting to add logic mathematics to a college paper - need your input

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Mosteller lectures - available online?

  • Stephen Tashi
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Graduate Optimal strategy for repeated coin toss game - with possible bias

  • The Investor
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Integer solutions to (2n-1)/(n+7) and modular exponentiation

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What is the Pigeonhole Principle Problem in the African Rally?

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Proof by induction? No Idea what I should do :(

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