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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': how did they do this?

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StackExchange fires a moderator, and now in response hundreds of moderators resign: is the increase in resignations statistically significant?

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The frog problem with negative steps

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Are unbiased efficient estimators stochastically dominant over other (median) unbiased estimators?

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How do we characterize probabilities on this infinite sample space

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Forecasting/predicting total sum of donations (following GLM with poisson family and log link)

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Viral topics. How to describe and characterize bumps in time series of tag-activity on Meta Stack Exchange

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How to call this frequentist interval estimate that is neither a prediction interval nor a confidence interval

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Minimum-variance unbiased estimator to estimate quantiles when the errors are normal distributed

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Compounding a Gaussian distribution with variance distributed according to the absolute value of another Gaussian distribution

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Is there a reason other than conventions why a CDF must be defined for all real numbers

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What is the history of the vertical bar symbol |

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Intuition about a coupon problem were we ask for the distribution of the unique coupons when the number of draws is fixed

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13 Questions

Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': how did they do this?

StackExchange fires a moderator, and now in response hundreds of moderators resign: is the increase in resignations statistically significant?

The frog problem with negative steps

Are unbiased efficient estimators stochastically dominant over other (median) unbiased estimators?

How do we characterize probabilities on this infinite sample space

Forecasting/predicting total sum of donations (following GLM with poisson family and log link)

Viral topics. How to describe and characterize bumps in time series of tag-activity on Meta Stack Exchange

How to call this frequentist interval estimate that is neither a prediction interval nor a confidence interval

Minimum-variance unbiased estimator to estimate quantiles when the errors are normal distributed

Compounding a Gaussian distribution with variance distributed according to the absolute value of another Gaussian distribution

Is there a reason other than conventions why a CDF must be defined for all real numbers

What is the history of the vertical bar symbol |

Intuition about a coupon problem were we ask for the distribution of the unique coupons when the number of draws is fixed