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30 votes

What is wrong with extrapolation?

answered Jun 19, 2016 at 10:04

16 votes

What is your favorite "data analysis" cartoon?

answered Mar 16, 2016 at 19:56

15 votes

Difference is summary statistics: Gini coefficient and standard deviation

answered May 15, 2016 at 21:38

14 votes

The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning?

answered Mar 21, 2016 at 20:33

13 votes

What's so 'moment' about 'moments' of a probability distribution?

answered May 7, 2016 at 11:42

9 votes

Why is the expected value named so?

answered Mar 3, 2017 at 13:44

8 votes

If $X_n ∼ N(0, 1/n)$, then why is $\sqrt{n}X_n ∼ N(0, 1)$?

answered Oct 15, 2016 at 14:01

8 votes

Modelling with more variables than data points

answered Jul 13, 2016 at 8:32

8 votes

What exactly is Big Data?

answered Sep 20, 2015 at 8:02

6 votes

Euclidean distance is usually not good for sparse data (and more general case)?

answered Sep 20, 2015 at 15:38

6 votes

What is the famous data set that looks totally different but has similar summary stats?

answered Nov 8, 2015 at 22:29

6 votes

Why the sudden fascination with tensors?

answered Sep 3, 2016 at 16:41

5 votes

Intuitive explanation for dividing by $n-1$ when calculating standard deviation?

answered Sep 2, 2016 at 20:49

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Rubberband baseline correction

answered Mar 25, 2018 at 10:39

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pdf and their relation to moments

answered Aug 23, 2020 at 19:58

4 votes

Choosing Between Additive and Multiplicative Model?

answered Nov 26, 2016 at 19:26

4 votes

How to verify if data follows Zipf's law without looking at the graph

answered Nov 8, 2015 at 22:03

4 votes

Difference between local regression and moving average for smoothing

answered Apr 2, 2016 at 23:46

4 votes

What is this diagram called

answered Aug 3, 2015 at 8:04

3 votes

In statistics, should I assume $\log$ to mean $\log_{10}$ or the natural logarithm $\ln$?

answered Apr 4, 2016 at 15:11

3 votes

interpretation of boxcox with lambda equal 0

answered Nov 6, 2016 at 21:22

3 votes

What are common statistical sins?

answered Aug 11, 2016 at 19:14

3 votes

Variance of a regression coefficient

answered Aug 20, 2016 at 17:33

3 votes

Can someone help to explain the difference between independent and random?

answered Aug 24, 2016 at 9:11

2 votes

Normalize two distributions having high standard deviation

answered Jul 19, 2016 at 11:24

2 votes

Is forecasting and predictions part of Inferential or Descriptive?

answered Jul 7, 2016 at 18:52

2 votes

Maximize response for input params clusters from a blackbox function

answered Jul 8, 2016 at 14:05

2 votes

Inequality involving an integral of the cumulative distribution function of the Gaussian

answered Sep 9, 2016 at 8:13

1 vote

Help understanding DCT compression for a vector

answered Dec 17, 2015 at 9:29

1 vote

When was the k-means clustering algorithm first used?

answered Dec 31, 2015 at 12:55

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39 Answers

What is wrong with extrapolation?

What is your favorite "data analysis" cartoon?

Difference is summary statistics: Gini coefficient and standard deviation

The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning?

What's so 'moment' about 'moments' of a probability distribution?

Why is the expected value named so?

If $X_n ∼ N(0, 1/n)$, then why is $\sqrt{n}X_n ∼ N(0, 1)$?

Modelling with more variables than data points

What exactly is Big Data?

Euclidean distance is usually not good for sparse data (and more general case)?

What is the famous data set that looks totally different but has similar summary stats?

Why the sudden fascination with tensors?

Intuitive explanation for dividing by $n-1$ when calculating standard deviation?

Rubberband baseline correction

pdf and their relation to moments

Choosing Between Additive and Multiplicative Model?

How to verify if data follows Zipf's law without looking at the graph

Difference between local regression and moving average for smoothing

What is this diagram called

In statistics, should I assume $\log$ to mean $\log_{10}$ or the natural logarithm $\ln$?

interpretation of boxcox with lambda equal 0

What are common statistical sins?

Variance of a regression coefficient

Can someone help to explain the difference between independent and random?

Normalize two distributions having high standard deviation

Is forecasting and predictions part of Inferential or Descriptive?

Maximize response for input params clusters from a blackbox function

Inequality involving an integral of the cumulative distribution function of the Gaussian

Help understanding DCT compression for a vector

When was the k-means clustering algorithm first used?