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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

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/72479/general-sum-of-gamma-distributions/137318#137318

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/120776/why-should-we-use-t-errors-instead-of-normal-errors/120787#120787

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/112451/maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-in-layman-terms/112480#112480

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/152850/difference-of-two-i-i-d-lognormal-random-variables/176374#176374

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/131065/non-transitivity-of-correlation-correlations-between-gender-and-brain-size-and/131069#131069

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/188903/intuition-on-the-kullback-leibler-kl-divergence/189758#189758

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/35956/taleb-and-the-black-swan/36048#36048

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/102778/correlations-between-continuous-and-categorical-nominal-variables/102800#102800

http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/254124/why-does-logistic-regression-become-unstable-when-classes-are-well-separated/254205#254205

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67 What is the intuition behind SVD? Oct 28 '15
51 Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence Jan 7 '16
49 How does saddlepoint approximation work? Jan 21 '16
49 What is the difference between finite and infinite variance May 27 '14
40 Why should we use t errors instead of normal errors? Oct 20 '14
31 Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well-separated? Jan 2 '17
31 Goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or Poisson Mar 18 '15
30 Why do we only see $L_1$ and $L_2$ regularization but not other norms? Mar 23 '17
30 How does linear regression use the normal distribution? Apr 29 '15
25 The difference between with or without intercept model in logistic regression Feb 6 '17
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