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Famous statistical quotations

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What's the difference between probability and statistics?

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Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?

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Famous statistical quotations

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Python as a statistics workbench

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What is the community's take on the Fourth Quadrant?

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Free statistical textbooks

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Why is multiple comparison a problem?

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Conjugate prior for a Gamma distribution

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Why is median age a better statistic than mean age?

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Eliciting priors from experts

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How can I test if given samples are taken from a Poisson distribution?

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Open Source statistical textbooks?

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Famous statistical quotations

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What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook?

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Moments of a distribution - any use for partial or higher moments?

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Complete substantive examples of reproducible research using R

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Product of beta distributions

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Statistics library with knapsack constraint

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What is your favorite layman's explanation for a difficult statistical concept?

answered Jul 26, 2010 at 20:06

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Recreating traditional null hypothesis testing with Bayesian methods

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What R packages do you find most useful in your daily work?

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Moments and density tails

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What is tied data in the context of a rank correlation coefficient?

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Free resources for learning R

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What book would you recommend for non-statistician scientists?

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Testing random variate generation algorithms

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Testing random variate generation algorithms

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What is numerical overflow?

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What are some interesting and well-written applied statistics papers?

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Famous statistical quotations

What's the difference between probability and statistics?

Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?

Famous statistical quotations

Python as a statistics workbench

What is the community's take on the Fourth Quadrant?

Free statistical textbooks

Why is multiple comparison a problem?

Conjugate prior for a Gamma distribution

Why is median age a better statistic than mean age?

Eliciting priors from experts

How can I test if given samples are taken from a Poisson distribution?

Open Source statistical textbooks?

Famous statistical quotations

What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook?

Moments of a distribution - any use for partial or higher moments?

Complete substantive examples of reproducible research using R

Product of beta distributions

Statistics library with knapsack constraint

What is your favorite layman's explanation for a difficult statistical concept?

Recreating traditional null hypothesis testing with Bayesian methods

What R packages do you find most useful in your daily work?

Moments and density tails

What is tied data in the context of a rank correlation coefficient?

Free resources for learning R

What book would you recommend for non-statistician scientists?

Testing random variate generation algorithms

Testing random variate generation algorithms

What is numerical overflow?

What are some interesting and well-written applied statistics papers?