shabbychef

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matlab/stats/linux nerd, learning R slowly; proud, sleepless, new parent; HCSSiM alum, CMU grad, postdoc survivor; faking it as a quantitative analyst at a small quant fund in San Francisco; wants to be a statistician when he grows up.

@shabbychef

	5,361 reputation	bio	website	twitter.com/shabbychef	visits	member for	2 years, 9 months
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145 Answers

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28	What is the hardest statistical concept to grasp?
18	Among Matlab and Python, which one is good for statistical analysis?
16	What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?
13	What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?
11	What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?

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+5	Random permutation of a vector with a fixed expected sample correlation to the original?
+10	What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?
-2	Mean of a sliding window in R
+5	Bayesian inference on noncentrality parameters of t- and F-distributions

63 Questions

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41	Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?
33	Statistics interview questions
19	Probability of not drawing a word from a bag of letters in Scrabble
18	Statistical forensics: Benford and beyond
16	Test for finite variance?

187 Tags

53 matlab × 19	39 correlation × 13
46 r × 20	24 python × 2
45 hypothesis-testing × 25	21 probability × 14
40 distributions × 29	18 pca × 9
40 regression × 21	16 data-visualization × 6