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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 Binomial with both $n$ and $p$ unknown

what-is-the-difference-between-finite-and-infinite-variance

Generic sum of Gamma random variables

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

Non-transitivity of correlation: correlations between gender and brain size and between brain size and IQ, but no correlation between gender and IQ

Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) 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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88 What is the intuition behind SVD? Oct 28 '15

78 Intuition on the Kullback–Leibler (KL) Divergence Jan 7 '16

62 How does saddlepoint approximation work? Jan 21 '16

61 What is the difference between finite and infinite variance May 27 '14

48 Why should we use t errors instead of normal errors? Oct 20 '14

36 Goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or Poisson Mar 18 '15

36 How does linear regression use the normal distribution? Apr 29 '15

36 Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well-separated? Jan 2 '17

35 Why do we only see $L_1$ and $L_2$ regularization but not other norms? Mar 23 '17

32 Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables Jun 10 '14

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