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Logic is barren, unless fertilized by intution.

H. Poincarè

I am currently studying for my Master in Statistics where I hope to contribute to the knowledge in the not-so-distant future. My interests are primarily concentrated around likelihood inference and robust methods.

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How to interpret a QQ plot

A generalization of the Law of Iterated Expectations

Functions of Independent Random Variables

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Using Regression to project outside of the data range ok? never ok? sometimes ok?

An example of a consistent and biased estimator?

How incorrect is a regression model when assumptions are not met?

Distribution of a quadratic form, non-central chi-squared distribution

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172 How to interpret a QQ plot Jun 5 '14
42 A generalization of the Law of Iterated Expectations May 1 '14
38 Pdf of the square of a standard normal random variable Jan 27 '16
32 How incorrect is a regression model when assumptions are not met? Dec 29 '15
24 Functions of Independent Random Variables Apr 23 '14
22 An example of a consistent and biased estimator? Sep 25 '15
21 How to find regression coefficients $\beta$ in ridge regression? Jan 16 '16
18 Reference Request: Generalized Linear Models Apr 19 '14
18 What is the intuition behind the independence of $X_2-X_1$ and $X_1+X_2$, $X_i \sim N(0,1)$? Aug 20 '14
17 Why do residuals in linear regression always sum to zero when an intercept is included? Jan 6 '16
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