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High School Noob needs help understanding what is an axiom.
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Graduate Is Calculating Variance Reduction in PCA Accurate?
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Undergrad What is the Probability of Your MarioKart Wii Track Being Chosen?
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Graduate What is the connection between sequence of sets and sequence of functions?
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Undergrad PCAT Variance Qs: Range of Scores & Similar Mean Values?
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Graduate Proving Variance of t Distribution
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Undergrad Probability : Dependent Events
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Graduate Actual and potential infinities
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Graduate What is the non-lattice definition of non-lattice?
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Undergrad What is the Cardinality of Sets X, Y, and A, B, C?
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Undergrad Find Number of Permutations of 2D Numbers Constrained by Sum n
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Undergrad Statistics on games, how do you know if it is fair?
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Undergrad Proving linearity of a function
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Graduate What Are the Conditions for Prob(wx + y < c) ≈ Prob(wx < c) as w → ∞?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Crime Probability Using Poisson and Binomial Distributions?
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Undergrad Is there a better way to evaluate stability in simulated cellular automata?
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Undergrad Grand jury problem (LOGIC problem solving)
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Undergrad Determining the percentage of points away from the Mean
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Undergrad How get the significant difference from arithmetic means and SD?
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Undergrad Post Production System Question, Pｌｓ　ｈｅｌｐ　ｍｅ
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Undergrad Probability problem that is driving me crazy.
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Undergrad Profitability Ranking (basic markets)
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Graduate Comparing two datasets: methods and statistics
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Undergrad Difference between Power Sets and Sample Space
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Undergrad Understanding Skewness in Excel
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Undergrad What Percentage of Washers Falls Outside the Tolerance Range?
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High School What is the chance of winning a chocolate bar in this promotion?
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Undergrad Sampling Distribution of the Means
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Graduate When is a proof rigurous 'enough' ?
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Graduate A sum involving binomial coefficient
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Undergrad Combinations with repetition (an intuitive way to it?)
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Undergrad Calculating Roulette Probability for Multiple Occurrences in Limited Spins
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Graduate Monte Carlo integration method: sampling in region?
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Undergrad How to correct regression towards the means
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Graduate How Do You Determine Weight for Line Orientation in Different Sample Spaces?
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Graduate Can Statements Be Mathematical Objects?
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Undergrad SD of Combined Math SAT Scores for Men and Women
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Undergrad Win Free Stuff at Work: Game Theory Strategies
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Graduate Random number with which distribution
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Graduate Distribution of Number of Pieces
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Undergrad Calculating Lottery Odds: How Are Your Chances of Winning Determined?
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Undergrad Number of solutions to an equation
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Undergrad Proving Basic Set Theory: Trichotomy, Union, Intersection, and Multiplication
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Graduate Interchange Between Union and Intersection: Am I Correct?
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Graduate Two vectors u,v ∈ V are said to be orthogonal if
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Graduate A billion consective zeros in pi
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High School How do you calculate weekly and weekend prices from given information?
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Graduate How Do You Fit a Distribution to Truncated Data for Extrapolation?
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Undergrad Probability of two things happening at the same time
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Undergrad Probability of 3 successive ball picks?
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Undergrad What is the purpose of studying set theory?
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Graduate How is it that naïve sets can be used in logic consistently before ZFC?
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Graduate Is the Set M a Version of Russell's Paradox?
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High School Need help on simple binomial problem
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Undergrad Paul Octopus: 7 Consecutive Winner Predictions?
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High School I really do not get proofs AT ALL.
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Graduate Correct Form of Likelihood Function for Data w/ Upper/Lower Bound
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Undergrad What is the probability of A winning in a pistol duel against B?
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Graduate Average Expected Stopping Time for Two Consecutive Heads Flips
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Graduate Comparing Convergence Rates of Sequences
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Undergrad Statistical probability to help with a crime
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Graduate Why Covariance Matrix of Complex Random Vector is Hermitian Positive Definite
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Graduate Conundrum Regarding Evolution Probability
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Graduate Intuitionistic Logic: Formalizing "A is Non-Empty
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Graduate The logically implies concept in first-order logic
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High School Probability of 3 Heads and 2 Tails in 5 Coin Tosses
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Graduate Survival function from probabilities of no event at time t
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Undergrad Descendent of a Set: Find Definition & Symbol
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Graduate Why Does My Gaussian Integral of Maxwell-Boltzmann Not Equal n?
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Undergrad How Are Suicide Rates Calculated Differently for Genders in Lithuania?
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Undergrad Good books on Multivariate Statistics
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Graduate What Distribution Best Models Passenger Queue Arrivals Within Fixed Timeframes?
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Undergrad Probability of outcome of combined events
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Undergrad Calculating Probability of a Specific Hand in Poker
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Graduate Understanding Standardized Cumulants in the Edgeworth Series
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Graduate A Twist on the Two Children Problem (Not a HW question)
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Graduate What is the Combinatorial Interpretation of this Sum?
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Undergrad What is average deviation from expectation?
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Undergrad Calculating the Probability of a Royal Flush in Texas Holdem with 9 Players
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High School Is P a Necessary and Sufficient Cause of Q?
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Graduate Using t-tests to get trials until significance ?
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Undergrad Probability of a value of x, given a mean value of x bar and standard deviation s
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Undergrad Help with Expected Value: Get Answers Here!
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Graduate Describing the goodness of fit of a model
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Graduate Efficient parameter estimation of marginal distribution
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Graduate Expected values and recurrence relations
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High School Calculating Average for Roulette
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Undergrad How do I recode this independent, categorical variable
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Undergrad How can the central limit theorem help us understand the normal distribution?
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Undergrad About probability of playing roulette
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Undergrad Is My Coin Toss Hypothesis Correct?
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Undergrad Statistical Analysis: Quebec Referendum Vote
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Undergrad Number of rolls of a die to get a particular #
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Graduate Question about cards (challenging problem)
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Graduate Joint Probability of Sum Normal
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Undergrad About the combination of tossing three dices
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Teaching Kids About the Stock Market Through Games
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Undergrad Elementary combinatorics problem - why am I wrong?
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Graduate The quadratic covariation of Brownian motion and poisson process
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