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Ben
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What is the difference between a loss function and an error function?

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I know the 95% confidence interval for ln(x), do I also know the 95% confidence interval of x?

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Brain-teaser: What is the expected length of an iid sequence that is monotonically increasing when drawn from a uniform [0,1] distribution?

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Examples of a statistic that is not independent of sample's distribution?

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What exactly is a seed in a random number generator?

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Why do we worry about overfitting even if "all models are wrong"?

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Debunking wrong CLT statement

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How do you deal with "nested" variables in a regression model?

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What important ideas came since Nelder and McCullagh's book Generalized Linear Models (a 40 year old book)?

37 votes

A smaller dataset is better: Is this statement false in statistics? How to refute it properly?

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Why should the frequency of heads in a coin toss converge to anything at all?

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Coin flip game: HH vs HT in a sequence of flips

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Flaws in Frequentist Inference

33 votes

probability of one random variable being greater than another

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Dropping outliers based on "2.5 times the RMSE"

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Does Wolfram Mathworld make a mistake describing a discrete probability distribution with a probability density function?

31 votes

Deriving the conditional distributions of a multivariate normal distribution

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Can a posterior probability be >1?

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Do we believe in existence of true prior distribution in Bayesian Statistics?

30 votes

What is the Wine/Water Paradox in Bayesian statistics, and what is its resolution?

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Is there any difference between Frequentist and Bayesian on the definition of Likelihood?

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What is the intuition behind the idea that for linear regression, the number of observations should exceed the number of parameters?

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Are MCMC without memory?

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What concepts/objects are "wrongly" formed in probability and statistics?

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Intuitive understanding of the difference between consistent and asymptotically unbiased

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Why do we use hypothesis tests instead of just letting people do Bayesian updates?

27 votes

The Book of Why by Judea Pearl: Why is he bashing statistics?

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Why is my data not normally distributed while I have an almost perfect QQ plot and histogram?

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What is the difference between something being "true" and 'true with probability 1"?

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Is Babe Ruth's statement meaningful?

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