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Below a list of some questions I have responded to, where I consider my response interesting:

how-does-saddlepoint-approximation-work

what is the intuition behind svd

goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or poisson

Estimating parameters for Binomial with both $n$ and $p$ unknown

what is the difference between finite and infinite variance

general sum of gamma distributions

why should we use t errors instead of normal errors

maximum likelihood estimation mle in layman terms

difference of two iid lognormal random variables

non transitivity of correlation correlations between gender and brain size

Intuitio on the Kullback-Leibler divergence

Taleb and the black swan

Correlations between continuous and categorical nominal variables

Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well separated

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What is the intuition behind SVD?
Oct 28, 2015
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Intuition on the Kullback–Leibler (KL) Divergence
Jan 7, 2016
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How does saddlepoint approximation work?
Jan 21, 2016
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What is the difference between finite and infinite variance
May 27, 2014
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Why should we use t errors instead of normal errors?
Oct 20, 2014
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How does linear regression use the normal distribution?
Apr 29, 2015
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Dropping one of the columns when using one-hot encoding
Feb 18, 2018
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Why do we only see $L_1$ and $L_2$ regularization but not other norms?
Mar 23, 2017
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Goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or Poisson
Mar 18, 2015
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Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables
Jun 10, 2014
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Where can I ask questions about "operations research"?
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how to find/define eigenvectors as a continuous function of matrix?

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