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What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics? (2)
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Online math history lectures
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Estimating the mean of a truncated gaussian curve
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Non-rigorous reasoning in rigorous mathematics
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The difference between Principle Components Analysis (PCA) and Factor Analysis (FA)
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Distance metric between two sample distributions (histograms)
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Bayesian statistics for pure mathematicians
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Are all probabilities conditional probabilities?
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Why is Beta the maximum entropy distribution over Bernoulli’s parameter?
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Sampling uniformly from a sphere
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How to factorize the joint probability of an arbitrary graph whose nodes are random variables?
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Measure of progress towards a proof
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Why is the Fast Fourier Transform efficient?
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Is there a problem with the Wishart distribution?
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exchangeable normal r.v.s
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The James–Stein estimator - counterintuitive estimation of the mean. What means it is better than least squares ? (Understanding Wikipedia)
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Interesting thesis topic on statistical inference that is sufficiently mathematical
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Strange pattern in rounding errors?
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Information criteria for ridge regression
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An inequality on Difference of Entropies
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Why doesn’t Stein effect happen for multinomial distributions?
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refrence for simple statistics question: estimation of variance of $n$, for known $r=s+n$, for $s= \pm1$, $n=N(0,\sigma)$
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Statistical calculations over algebraic structures
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Maximum entropy priors in infinite dimensional spaces
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Maximum entropy probability distribution with known quantile
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What does it mean to sample a value x* from f(x)?
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A test for randomness of direction of vector data
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Gibbs sampling step size
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Estimating joint and conditional probabilities with incomplete information
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bayes theorem on histogram
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