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The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning?

machine-learning

sep 30 at 6:36 doug 1,695

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What is the difference between “likelihood” and “probability”?

probability likelihood-function

apr 13 at 20:49 Gypsy 61

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Locating freely available data samples

population dataset sample

nov 21 at 4:04 StatisticsDoc Consulting 166

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Most interesting statistical paradoxes

paradox

jan 5 at 1:35 zbicyclist 730

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What is the difference between data mining, statistics, machine learning and AI?

machine-learning data-mining

feb 13 at 6:14 Joel Malard 1

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What are the 'big problems' in statistics?

big-list

aug 23 '11 at 9:36 csgillespie 6,104

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How are we defining 'reproducible research'?

reproducible-research philosophical

jan 3 '12 at 19:43 EpiGrad 8,380

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What are good references containing arguments against null hypothesis significance testing?

hypothesis-testing statistical-significance big-list

jun 23 '11 at 18:32 chl♦ 27.2k

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What's the difference between principal components analysis and multidimensional scaling?

pca multidimensional-scaling

apr 15 at 11:03 ttnphns 9,000

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Bayesians: slaves of the likelihood function?

bayesian mathematical-statistics

apr 29 at 23:42 Zen 5,265

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Motivation for Kolmogorov distance between distributions

distributions probability hypothesis-testing mathematical-statistics

jan 24 at 21:39 Aaron Sheldon 176

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Most confusing statistical terms

terminology communication

nov 28 at 6:04 user11852 1,333

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What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?

bayesian

oct 18 '11 at 18:55 user873 411

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Cloud computing platforms for machine learning

r machine-learning

jul 8 at 19:05 Prof. Falken 118

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Practical thoughts on explanatory vs. predictive modeling

predictive-models

oct 16 at 9:05 yoplait 1

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Introduction to statistics for mathematicians

books

aug 13 '10 at 21:22 whuber♦ 57.2k

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What is the difference between a particle filter (sequential Monte Carlo) and a Kalman filter?

bayesian particle-filter kalman-filter

aug 27 '10 at 6:56 gd047 2,636

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Statistical podcasts

books

apr 13 '11 at 8:20 mbq♦ 12.1k

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What is a good reference book for the matrix algebra linear algebra used a lot in applied statistics?

books big-list linear-algebra

jan 25 '12 at 19:18 Michelle 2,398

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Effect size as the hypothesis for significance testing

hypothesis-testing large-data

feb 24 '12 at 21:34 Peter Flom 22.7k

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How to interpret an inverse covariance or precision matrix?

interpretation variance-covariance

mar 21 at 3:46 Trevor Alexander 64

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Is there an unbiased estimator of an Hellinger distance?

distance-functions unbiased-estimator

mar 6 at 15:25 Zen 5,265

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What statistical methods are archaic and should be omitted from textbooks?

references education history

mar 13 at 16:23 user603 7,500

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What's the relation between hierarchical models, neural networks, graphical models, bayesian networks?

causal-inference neural-networks multilevel-analysis graphical-model

nov 13 '10 at 20:33 chl♦ 27.2k

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Is machine learning less useful for understanding causality, thus less interesting for social science?

machine-learning econometrics

jan 6 at 0:25 dchandler 389

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Cross Validation (error generalization) after model selection

machine-learning model-selection data-mining cross-validation

jan 4 '11 at 21:16 Dikran Marsupial 12.1k

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How to optimize my R script in order to use “multicore”

r

jan 19 '11 at 21:44 mbq♦ 12.1k

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What theories should every statistician know?

theory careers

feb 15 '12 at 8:26 Dikran Marsupial 12.1k

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Hosting options for publicly available data

reproducible-research

feb 19 '12 at 18:28 Karsten W. 303

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Advanced statistics books recommendation

pca books generalized-linear-model maximum-likelihood

jul 28 at 20:12 julieth 361

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