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math.ST Statistics

  • Accurate polling
  • Fraud detection: whether financial (e.g. via Benford's law) or voter fraud.
  • Used in the world of finance, economics and gambling on a daily basis.
  • Predicting consumer preferences (e.g. Netflix prize)
  • Experimental design and hypothesis testing (e.g. testing of medical hypotheses)
  • Machine learning
  • Quality control
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math.ST Statistics

  • Accurate polling
  • Fraud detection (e.g. via Benford's law)
  • Used in the world of finance, economics and gambling on a daily basis.
  • Predicting consumer preferences (e.g. Netflix prize)
  • Experimental design and hypothesis testing (e.g. testing of medical hypotheses)
  • Machine learning
  • Quality control
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math.ST Statistics

  • Accurate polling; testing of medical treatments; fraud
  • Fraud detection (e.g. via Benford's law)
  • used
  • Used in the world of finance, economics and gambling on a daily basis. It is used every time someone shuffles songs on their ipods, it's used every time someone plays a computer game, it's used every day by physicists, etc.
  • Predicting consumer preferences (e.g. Netflix prize)
  • Experimental design and hypothesis testing (e.g. testing of medical hypotheses)
  • Machine learning
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