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Dilip Sarwate

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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118 Why is Euclidean distance not a good metric in high dimensions? May 19 '14
69 Why does the correlation coefficient between X and X-Y random variables tend to be 0.7 Mar 6 '13
63 How can I calculate $\int^{\infty}_{-\infty}\Phi\left(\frac{w-a}{b}\right)\phi(w)\,\mathrm dw$ Jun 6 '13
46 Brain teaser: How to generate 7 integers with equal probability using a biased coin that has a pr(head) = p? Jul 6 '18
44 Does the reciprocal of a probability represent anything? Oct 28 '16
41 Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean? Sep 10 '12
39 Variance of product of multiple random variables Mar 19 '13
38 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 '13
37 Why is P(A,B|C)/P(B|C) = P(A|B,C)? Jan 26 '17
32 What is the distribution of the sum of non i.i.d. gaussian variates? Dec 17 '11
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