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Famous statistical wins and horror stories for teaching purposes

answered Nov 1, 2019 at 14:41

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Detect if there is actually two populations in a sample

answered Jun 9, 2020 at 9:44

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Effect of nonlinear transformations on the mean

answered Jun 11, 2020 at 15:04

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Is there a name for the midpoint of a sum (not a mean or median)?

answered May 23, 2020 at 12:09

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Can a neural network work with negative and zero inputs?

answered Dec 23, 2021 at 12:31

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Why is skewed data not preferred for modelling?

answered Mar 16, 2017 at 12:50

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Use of expression "statistically significantly positive"

answered Oct 17, 2019 at 15:22

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Can the split of an AB test be different than 50-50?

answered Sep 3, 2020 at 14:07

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What are the assumptions in bayesian statistics?

answered Nov 9, 2019 at 10:33

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Why Lasso or ElasticNet perform better than Ridge when the features are correlated

answered Feb 25, 2017 at 17:44

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Does there exist a Frequentist or Non-Bayesian solution to Gull's Lighthouse Problem?

answered May 22, 2020 at 20:51

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"It was the correct play even though I lost"

answered Sep 14, 2020 at 18:00

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Problems, which are difficult for SGD

answered Sep 23, 2020 at 6:41

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XGBoost - Can we find a "better" objective function than RMSE for regression?

answered Sep 2, 2020 at 21:04

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Is "degree of freedom" singular or plural?

answered Sep 4, 2020 at 18:26

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Can a missing independent variable from a regression model produce a flawed analysis?

answered Oct 27, 2019 at 11:19

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What does it mean to "renormalize" the density of a kernel distribution?

answered Nov 19, 2019 at 16:23

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What is the correlation between Y and $\epsilon$ in a linear regression?

answered Apr 26, 2020 at 19:02

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Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic interpretation with large samples

answered May 17, 2020 at 0:11

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Why does the Kolmogorov distribution table have entries for $n$?

answered May 28, 2020 at 19:02

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Why does machine learning work for high-dimensional data($n \ll p$)?

answered Jun 12, 2020 at 7:41

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Finding similarity between two datasets

answered Oct 28, 2019 at 15:14

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How to classify new data point for Kernel SVM?

answered Nov 2, 2019 at 17:42

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In linear regression why does the response variable have to be continuous?

answered Mar 12, 2017 at 12:26

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Standard errors of parameters in IRT

answered Oct 14, 2019 at 11:59

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Hypothetical question about dispersion

answered Sep 6, 2020 at 12:05

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Simulation of logistic regression's accuracy

answered Sep 12, 2020 at 10:04

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Minimize $f(A,B)$ s.t. $\text{exp}(A)^T \text{exp}(B)=J_K$

answered Aug 23, 2020 at 19:46

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Test if function "raises faster then linear"

answered Jun 15, 2020 at 13:46

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Range of $R^2$ of the model with two predictors given the $R^2$s of univariate models of each predictor

answered Oct 20, 2020 at 14:34

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Famous statistical wins and horror stories for teaching purposes

Detect if there is actually two populations in a sample

Effect of nonlinear transformations on the mean

Is there a name for the midpoint of a sum (not a mean or median)?

Can a neural network work with negative and zero inputs?

Why is skewed data not preferred for modelling?

Use of expression "statistically significantly positive"

Can the split of an AB test be different than 50-50?

What are the assumptions in bayesian statistics?

Why Lasso or ElasticNet perform better than Ridge when the features are correlated

Does there exist a Frequentist or Non-Bayesian solution to Gull's Lighthouse Problem?

"It was the correct play even though I lost"

Problems, which are difficult for SGD

XGBoost - Can we find a "better" objective function than RMSE for regression?

Is "degree of freedom" singular or plural?

Can a missing independent variable from a regression model produce a flawed analysis?

What does it mean to "renormalize" the density of a kernel distribution?

What is the correlation between Y and $\epsilon$ in a linear regression?

Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic interpretation with large samples

Why does the Kolmogorov distribution table have entries for $n$?

Why does machine learning work for high-dimensional data($n \ll p$)?

Finding similarity between two datasets

How to classify new data point for Kernel SVM?

In linear regression why does the response variable have to be continuous?

Standard errors of parameters in IRT

Hypothetical question about dispersion

Simulation of logistic regression's accuracy

Minimize $f(A,B)$ s.t. $\text{exp}(A)^T \text{exp}(B)=J_K$

Test if function "raises faster then linear"

Range of $R^2$ of the model with two predictors given the $R^2$s of univariate models of each predictor