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What is the intuition behind SVD?
Oct 28 '15 at 13:54
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Intuition on the Kullback-Leibler (KL) Divergence
Jan 7 '16 at 21:42
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How does saddlepoint approximation work?
Jan 21 '16 at 14:03
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What is the difference between finite and infinite variance
May 27 '14 at 12:04
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Why should we use t errors instead of normal errors?
Oct 20 '14 at 17:24
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Goodness of fit and which model to choose linear regression or Poisson
Mar 18 '15 at 19:01
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Why does logistic regression become unstable when classes are well-separated?
Jan 2 '17 at 18:16
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How does linear regression use the normal distribution?
Apr 29 '15 at 8:07
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Why do we only see $L_1$ and $L_2$ regularization but not other norms?
Mar 23 '17 at 17:55
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Correlations between continuous and categorical (nominal) variables
Jun 10 '14 at 11:19
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The difference between with or without intercept model in logistic regression
Feb 6 '17 at 9:50
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What is the difference between moment generating function and probability generating function?
Aug 13 '17 at 14:20
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Why doesn't the exponential family include all distributions?
Jul 31 '17 at 10:41
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Dropping one of the columns when using one-hot encoding
Feb 18 '18 at 15:06
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Do you have recommendations for books to self-teach Applied Statistics at the graduate level?
Jun 18 '14 at 14:22
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Statistical interpretation of Maximum Entropy Distribution
Nov 10 '16 at 11:02
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Why Lasso or ElasticNet perform better than Ridge when the features are correlated
Feb 26 '17 at 12:32
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Why are probability distributions denoted with a tilde?
Oct 27 '12 at 22:41
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Why do we need sigma-algebras to define probability spaces?
Mar 1 '16 at 14:42
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Taleb and the Black Swan
Sep 10 '12 at 19:31
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Family of GLM represents the distribution of the response variable or residuals?
Oct 30 '18 at 15:55
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What does “likelihood is only defined up to a multiplicative constant of proportionality” mean in practice?
May 13 '14 at 15:12
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What is the intuition behind defining completeness in a statistic as being impossible to form an unbiased estimator of $0$ from it?
Feb 19 '16 at 13:19
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Why is sum of squared residuals non-increasing when adding explanatory variable?
Aug 19 '15 at 8:27
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Is it possible that two Random Variables from the same distribution family have the same expectation and variance, but different higher moments?
Dec 23 '17 at 20:07
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Is there a statistical application that requires strong consistency?
Nov 1 '13 at 20:34
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Expected value as a function of quantiles?
Aug 5 '15 at 12:31
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I've heard that ratios or inverses of random variables often are problematic, in not having expectations. Why is that?
Aug 25 '17 at 10:14
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Difference of two i.i.d. lognormal random variables
Oct 10 '15 at 19:00
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ML estimate of exponential distribution (with censored data)
Jan 14 '15 at 11:27
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