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Roll a die until it lands on any number other than 4. What is the probability the result is > 4?

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Regression to the mean vs gambler's fallacy

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What is the distribution of sample means of a Cauchy distribution?

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Why sigmoid function instead of anything else?

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What are the most common biases humans make when collecting or interpreting data?

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What information does a Box Plot provide that a Histogram does not?

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Understanding the proof of sample mean being unbiased estimator of population mean in Simple Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR)

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How does one explain what an unbiased estimator is to a layperson?

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What is the difference between prediction and inference?

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Is a fat tail same as skew

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Should parsimony really still be the gold standard?

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What is "Multinomial Deviance" in the glmnet package?

answered Dec 15, 2015 at 18:54

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Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric?

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What do confidence intervals say about precision (if anything)?

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Explaining The Variance of a Regression Model

answered Mar 25, 2016 at 15:27

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What's rollout policy in AlphaGo's paper?

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Why is Bonferroni considered a conservative multiple comparison tool?

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Does $E|X|<\infty$ and $E|Y|<\infty$ imply that $E|XY|<\infty$?

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Bayes classifier?

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Expected value of a natural logarithm

answered Jul 21, 2015 at 0:30

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Estimating the probability in a Bernoulli process by sampling until 10 failures: is it biased?

answered Mar 7, 2016 at 4:26

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Given a draw from one of two overlapping normal distributions, what is the probability it came from one vs. the other?

answered Mar 2, 2016 at 23:29

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Minimum / Maximum and other Advanced Properties of the Covariance of Two Random Variables

answered Feb 27, 2016 at 14:58

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Is it impossible to pick 7 (or some number) from a cardinally infinite set? (Aleph-0)

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Relationship between F and Student's t distributions

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How to prove Berkson's Fallacy?

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How to compute Deviance Statistic for a simple Logistic Regression Model in the case that any $n_i = y_i$?

answered Jul 13, 2015 at 0:24

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Is AUC the probability of correctly classifying a randomly selected instance from each class?

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MLE of multivariate normal distribution with diagonal covariance matrix

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Compound Poisson random variable

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Roll a die until it lands on any number other than 4. What is the probability the result is > 4?

Regression to the mean vs gambler's fallacy

What is the distribution of sample means of a Cauchy distribution?

Why sigmoid function instead of anything else?

What are the most common biases humans make when collecting or interpreting data?

What information does a Box Plot provide that a Histogram does not?

Understanding the proof of sample mean being unbiased estimator of population mean in Simple Random Sampling Without Replacement (SRSWOR)

How does one explain what an unbiased estimator is to a layperson?

What is the difference between prediction and inference?

Is a fat tail same as skew

Should parsimony really still be the gold standard?

What is "Multinomial Deviance" in the glmnet package?

Why would parametric statistics ever be preferred over nonparametric?

What do confidence intervals say about precision (if anything)?

Explaining The Variance of a Regression Model

What's rollout policy in AlphaGo's paper?

Why is Bonferroni considered a conservative multiple comparison tool?

Does $E|X|<\infty$ and $E|Y|<\infty$ imply that $E|XY|<\infty$?

Bayes classifier?

Expected value of a natural logarithm

Estimating the probability in a Bernoulli process by sampling until 10 failures: is it biased?

Given a draw from one of two overlapping normal distributions, what is the probability it came from one vs. the other?

Minimum / Maximum and other Advanced Properties of the Covariance of Two Random Variables

Is it impossible to pick 7 (or some number) from a cardinally infinite set? (Aleph-0)

Relationship between F and Student's t distributions

How to prove Berkson's Fallacy?

How to compute Deviance Statistic for a simple Logistic Regression Model in the case that any $n_i = y_i$?

Is AUC the probability of correctly classifying a randomly selected instance from each class?

MLE of multivariate normal distribution with diagonal covariance matrix

Compound Poisson random variable