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What is the hardest statistical concept to grasp?

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Among Matlab and Python, which language is good for statistical analysis?

answered Sep 25, 2010 at 4:53

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What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?

answered Nov 9, 2010 at 20:36

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Linear model with constraints

answered Sep 28, 2010 at 17:48

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Rules of thumb for "modern" statistics

answered Sep 16, 2010 at 21:32

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What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?

answered Nov 9, 2010 at 20:30

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What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?

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Support vector machines and regression

answered Jul 18, 2011 at 16:50

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Kernel density estimate takes values larger than 1

answered Dec 29, 2010 at 20:33

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How to efficiently generate random positive-semidefinite correlation matrices?

answered Sep 17, 2010 at 0:14

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What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?

answered Jan 29, 2011 at 5:40

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Mean and Median properties

answered Feb 16, 2011 at 23:13

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Understanding SVM regression: objective function and "flatness"

answered Jan 4, 2011 at 5:22

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What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?

answered Oct 17, 2011 at 20:48

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What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?

answered Jan 29, 2011 at 18:37

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T-test for non normal when N>50?

answered Apr 15, 2011 at 3:20

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Example of strong correlation coefficient with a high p value

answered Oct 21, 2011 at 17:11

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Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

answered Sep 16, 2010 at 5:15

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Comparing the variance of paired observations

answered Aug 16, 2010 at 20:12

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Is Spearman's correlation coefficient usable to compare distributions?

answered Aug 6, 2010 at 22:34

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Measure of closeness

answered Dec 27, 2010 at 5:34

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How can I test $H_0:\sigma^2_1=\sigma^2_2$?

answered Mar 21, 2011 at 21:36

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Comparing backtesting returns with real trading returns

answered Jun 30, 2011 at 22:23

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Justification of one-tailed hypothesis testing

answered Mar 4, 2011 at 0:15

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What is the power of the regression F test?

answered Jun 5, 2011 at 3:41

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Simple linear regression output interpretation

answered Jul 19, 2011 at 23:39

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Differences between tetrachoric and Pearson correlation

answered Sep 26, 2010 at 16:30

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What is your favorite "data analysis" cartoon?

answered Aug 31, 2010 at 17:41

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Statistics Jokes

answered Aug 7, 2010 at 6:03

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Amoeba Interview Question

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What is the hardest statistical concept to grasp?

Among Matlab and Python, which language is good for statistical analysis?

What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?

Linear model with constraints

Rules of thumb for "modern" statistics

What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?

What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?

Support vector machines and regression

Kernel density estimate takes values larger than 1

How to efficiently generate random positive-semidefinite correlation matrices?

What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?

Mean and Median properties

Understanding SVM regression: objective function and "flatness"

What are the cons of Bayesian analysis?

What are the breakthroughs in Statistics of the past 15 years?

T-test for non normal when N>50?

Example of strong correlation coefficient with a high p value

Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues

Comparing the variance of paired observations

Is Spearman's correlation coefficient usable to compare distributions?

Measure of closeness

How can I test $H_0:\sigma^2_1=\sigma^2_2$?

Comparing backtesting returns with real trading returns

Justification of one-tailed hypothesis testing

What is the power of the regression F test?

Simple linear regression output interpretation

Differences between tetrachoric and Pearson correlation

What is your favorite "data analysis" cartoon?

Statistics Jokes

Amoeba Interview Question