shabbychef

less info
meta site favicon meta user | stack exchange network profile network profile
5,361 reputation
31444
bio website twitter.com/shabbychef
location San Francisco, CA
age 39
visits member for 2 years, 10 months
seen Jun 14 at 19:14
stats profile views 737

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


145 Answers

newest activity votes
28
What is the hardest statistical concept to grasp?
jan 27 '11 at 6:06
18
Among Matlab and Python, which one is good for statistical analysis?
sep 25 '10 at 4:53
16
What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?
nov 9 '10 at 20:36
13
What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?
sep 3 '10 at 16:27
11
What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?
jan 29 '11 at 5:40
11
What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?
nov 9 '10 at 20:30
11
Rules of thumb for “modern” statistics
sep 16 '10 at 21:32
10
Linear model with constraints
sep 28 '10 at 17:48
9
Example of strong correlation coefficient with a high p value
oct 21 '11 at 17:11
9
What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?
oct 17 '11 at 20:48
8
What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?
jan 29 '11 at 18:37
8
Measure of closeness
dec 27 '10 at 5:34
7
How can I test $H_0:\sigma^2_1=\sigma^2_2$?
mar 21 '11 at 21:36
7
How to efficiently generate Positive Semi Definite correlation matrices?
sep 17 '10 at 0:14
6
How to compute the gradient for logistic regression in Matlab?
aug 16 '11 at 19:26
6
Simple linear regression output interpretation
jul 19 '11 at 23:39
6
Understanding SVM regression: objective function and “flatness”
jan 4 '11 at 5:22
6
Kernel density estimate takes values larger than 1
dec 29 '10 at 20:33
6
Probability that someone will like image
oct 20 '10 at 19:01
5
What can I do beyond Pearson correlation?
oct 27 '11 at 17:40
5
Detecting changes in distribution of multiple variables
oct 24 '11 at 17:28
5
What does T statistics of information coefficient indicate?
oct 19 '11 at 19:34
5
Support vector machines and regression
jul 18 '11 at 16:50
5
Comparing backtesting returns with real trading returns
jun 30 '11 at 22:23
5
Simple similarity metric
mar 2 '11 at 17:52
5
Alternatives to using Coefficient of Variation to summarize a set of parameter distributions?
dec 30 '10 at 4:50
5
Do the null hypotheses used for benjamini-hochberg have to be identical?
nov 8 '10 at 18:11
5
Online algorithm for mean absolute deviation and large data set
oct 7 '10 at 5:17
5
Estimate the size of a population being sampled by the number of repeat observations
sep 8 '10 at 5:03
4
Finding the correlation of every row and column between 2 matrices in R, then taking the max and min values
jun 27 '12 at 17:08
1 2 3 4 5