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kjetil b halvorsen
Mathematical statistician
Below a list of some questions I have responded to, where I consider my response most 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 a binomial
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 i.i.d. lognormal random variables
Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence
Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables
Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well-separated?
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