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Undergrad Probability of skill at board games
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Graduate Convergence of random variables
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High School What is the Meaning of P(E given F) in Basic Probability?
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Graduate Probability Density Function of |X|^(1/2)+|Y|^(1/2)+|Z|^(1/2) with N(0,1)
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Undergrad Question about Gaussian distribution
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High School Help: Probability of Equal Chance
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Graduate Confused about the concept of equality
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Graduate Can Venn diagrams resemble Cantor sets with infinitely many sets?
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High School How Would You Choose the Winning Number in This Game?
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High School Plotting probability plot by hand
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Graduate Solve Math Puzzle: Proving Nonemptiness of Intersection
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High School Getting into the depths of a proof
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Undergrad Can the pdf be determined numerically for a given data set?
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Undergrad Countability of Set S: Finite vs Denumerable
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Undergrad Battleship and Configuration probabilities
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Graduate Multivariate distribution : Mean vector?
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Undergrad Proving with Congruence of intergers
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Graduate Law of total expectation (VECTOR case)
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Graduate Proving One-to-One Correspondence b/w (-1, 7) and R
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High School How many possible combinations of 5 are there in 12
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Undergrad Do Researchers Share Their Original Data?
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Graduate Conversion of Set Theory Problems to other fields
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Undergrad Expected value of 3 cards dealt
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Undergrad Is there a way to find the combinations without listing the outcomes
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Who Killed Sharky in the Underworld Mystery?
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Graduate Inheriting Genes from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
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High School Calculate # of Combinations: Projects 1-5
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Graduate Cardinality of Real Numbers & Irrationals: Prove They're Equal
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Graduate Sojourn time in subset of states for Markov process?
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Undergrad Normal Distribution: Properties & Formula Explained
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Graduate Does (X_{n})_{n_{\geq 1}} converge almost surely to 0?
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Undergrad Confused about probability solution
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Graduate Is Magic Merely Unknown Science in Disguise?
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Undergrad Equivalence Relation: Can't Understand x~x+1 on Real Numbers
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Undergrad What is the definition of mean?
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Undergrad Normal distribution var(x)=sigma^2
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Undergrad Standard Deviation in One Direction
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Undergrad Why Does This Probability Equation Evaluate to 0.5?
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Undergrad Simulating bivariate distribution?
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Graduate Meta-language is language about language
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Undergrad What is the difference between these two probability problems?
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Graduate Should I Take the Axiomatic Set Theory Class?
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Undergrad Reducing Boolean Expressions: Axioms and Simplification Techniques
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Undergrad How Do I Define an Equivalence Relation on a Subset?
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Graduate Regression strategy for hypothesis testing vs prediction
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Undergrad Discussing the Logical Argument of a Quiz Given on Unknown Day
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Graduate Confidence that data belongs to distribution
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Undergrad How do I convert between cdf and pdf?
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Graduate Distribution Function: Computing P(X-Y > a) w/ f(m,v)
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Graduate Distribution Function f(x)= .5e^|x|, find EX and Var(x)
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Undergrad What Does the Mean Really Represent in Different Contexts?
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Graduate How Can Logistic Regression Model Amphibian Breeding Migration Probability?
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Undergrad Is binary divisibility by 3 determined by even and odd bit count?
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Undergrad Need some clarification with statistics
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High School What is the Probability of Drawing a Black Ball from Two Urns?
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Graduate How to Find EX and Var(X) for a Continuous Random Variable with Given P(X>x)?
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Undergrad Counting and probablity addition rule?
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Undergrad How to tell if data is normally distributed?
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Graduate Joint probability,-limit values
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Undergrad Solving the Roulette Problem: Strategies & Odds
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Graduate Using Poisson Approximation to Compare Infection Rates in Village A and B
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Undergrad Expected Value Problem: Limo Agency Booking
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Graduate Relationship between dist. of x and dist. of 1/x?
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Graduate Double Tower of Hanoi Puzzle: Minimum Moves & Recurrence Relation
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Undergrad Formula for closest distance to regression line
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Graduate Sums of Independent (but not identically distributed) Random Variables
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Graduate Is there a link between finance mathematics and number theory concepts?
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Undergrad Understanding the Variance of a One-Dimensional Random Walk
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Graduate A dice rolling quesiton (from D&D 4.0)
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Graduate Martingale = Independent Increments?
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Undergrad Poisson Distribution: finding the MEan
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Graduate Interpret Probability Distribution: Discrete Probability
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Undergrad Flowcharting Boardgames: 49/216 Chances of Landing on Scenario 1
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Undergrad What does it mean for a set to be bounded?
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Undergrad Total Number of Possible Combinations problem
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Graduate Example where higher moments are infinite
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Undergrad Why are implications used instead of equivalent expressions in a direct proof?
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High School Chances of getting pregnant when using 2-3 contraceptives together. Just curious
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Graduate Bertrand's Paradox: Is There More to it?
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Undergrad Obtaining samples of an RV with a given CDF
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Undergrad Is the Random Element in Stochastic Processes for Compensating Unknown Actions?
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Undergrad How to Calculate the Probability of a Pump Failure in a Given Mile Range?
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Undergrad How do give the recursive form for a certain function?
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Undergrad Probability for the most frequent number in lottery?
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Graduate Why is Nat(hom(A,-),F) a class?
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Graduate Metric Spaces: Theorem of Open Unions & Families of Sets
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Undergrad Is P(A|B) equal to P(A) if and only if P(B|A) is equal to P(B)?
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Undergrad Need Help Proving Powerset Inequality
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Graduate Is there a strategy for combining the German tank and secretary problem?
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Undergrad Standard error for marginal effect in regression?
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Undergrad Does P(X>t) Differ from P(Y>t) When X>Y>t?
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Graduate Set Theory and Predicate Calculus?
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Graduate Proof: Complex Numbers Don't Form an Ordered Field
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Graduate Determining the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution
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Graduate Proving the Independence Problem in Probability Theory
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High School What is the probability of two Los Angeles teams making it to the world series
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Undergrad Find a formula for p(x) = P(X=x)
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Undergrad Calculating Conditional Probability: A and B Events with A' and B' Notation
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Undergrad How Do You Solve Normal Distribution Problems in Statistics Homework?
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Graduate Cauchy-Schwarz inequality: cov(X,Y)]^2 ≤ var(X) var(Y)
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