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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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107 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
55 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
38 Why does the Cauchy distribution have no mean? Sep 10 '12
37 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
36 Why is P(A,B|C)/P(B|C) = P(A|B,C)? Jan 26 '17
34 Variance of product of multiple random variables Mar 19 '13
28 Bound for the correlation of three random variables Oct 15 '13
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