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matlh + stats hacker, faking it in R; father of boys; HCSSiM alum, CMU grad, postdoc survivor; former ML quant now working in the movies.

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Is normality testing 'essentially useless'?
Sep 8, 2010
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Statistics interview questions
Dec 14, 2010
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What is the hardest statistical concept to grasp?
Jan 27, 2011
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Test for finite variance?
Sep 9, 2010
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What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?
Nov 9, 2010
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Among Matlab and Python, which language is good for statistical analysis?
Sep 25, 2010
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Probability of not drawing a word from a bag of letters in Scrabble
Oct 20, 2010
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Distribution of inverse Wishart to a power?
Apr 27, 2012
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When are Shao's results on leave-one-out cross-validation applicable?
Sep 3, 2010
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Statistical forensics: Benford and beyond
Sep 2, 2010
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Will a docker container auto sync time with its host machine?
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Why does the VIX index have *any* correlation to the market?
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How do you evaluate a covariance forecast?

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