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Dilip Sarwate
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I am a retired professor of electrical and computer engineering with a lifetime of experience teaching probability and statistics to reluctant engineering undergraduates.

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Why is Euclidean distance not a good metric in high dimensions?
May 19, 2014
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How can I calculate $\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\Phi\left(\frac{w-a}{b}\right)\phi(w)\,\mathrm dw$
Jun 6, 2013
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Why does the correlation coefficient between X and X-Y random variables tend to be 0.7
Mar 6, 2013
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Variance of product of multiple independent random variables
Mar 19, 2013
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How can I prove mathematically that the mean of a distribution is the measure that minimizes the variance?
Apr 18, 2021
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Why does correlation matrix need to be positive semi-definite and what does it mean to be or not to be positive semi-definite?
Sep 3, 2013
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Brain teaser: How to generate 7 integers with equal probability using a biased coin that has a pr(head) = p?
Jul 6, 2018
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Why is P(A,B|C)/P(B|C) = P(A|B,C)?
Jan 26, 2017
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Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean?
Sep 10, 2012
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Covariance of a random vector after a linear transformation
Aug 29, 2014
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