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### In layman's terms what is the difference between a model and a distribution?

The answers (definitions) defined on Wikipedia are arguably a bit cryptic to those unfamiliar with higher mathematics/statistics. In mathematical terms, a statistical model is usually thought of as ...
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### Can someone help to explain the difference between independent and random?

In statistics, does independent and random describe the same characteristics? What's the difference between them? We often come across the description like "two independent random variables" or "...
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### But what is a random experiment

I am currently thinking a lot about the definition of probability and one thing that I am really not content with at all is the frequentist definition of probability as long run relative frequencies ...
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### Are RNNs inherently flawed? Supervised Learning assumes IID data but sequential data is not IID

From what I understand, Supervised Learning operates under the assumption that the data is I.I.D. It seems to me that the training procedure for RNNs is flawed. We receive observations in a sequential ...