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Famous statistician quotes

big-list history asked Jul 27 '10 at 6:20
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What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?

probability normal-distribution mathematical-statistics asked Nov 9 '10 at 20:19
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Free data set for very high dimensional classification

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Variable selection procedure for binary classification

machine-learning classification multiple-comparisons multivariate-analysis feature-selection asked Jul 22 '10 at 11:10
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Exploratory analysis of spatio-temporal forecast errors

forecasting data-mining stochastic-processes spatial spatio-temporal asked Feb 3 '11 at 8:58
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How does random forest generate the random forest

machine-learning r algorithms cart random-forest asked Jul 22 '10 at 8:58
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Detecting Clusters of “similar” source codes

hypothesis-testing clustering asked Jul 8 '12 at 14:01
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Equivalent of matlab 'ans' in R

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When can we call an explanation “rational”?

epistemology logic rationalism asked Jun 8 '11 at 19:35
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When and why do we say that two things are the same

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Famous statistician quotes
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What are common statistical sins?
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What is the single most influential book every statistician should read?
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Famous statistician quotes
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Is there an accepted definition for the median of a sample on the plane, or higher ordered spaces?
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Can someone please explain the back-propagation algorithm?
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Is my weatherman accurate?
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Why is the null hypothesis always a point value rather than a range in hypothesis testing?
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What is the best way to identify outliers in multivariate data?
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Do we have a problem of “pity upvotes”?
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Why does the supremum of the Brownian bridge have the Kolmogorov–Smirnov distribution?
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Is it possible to prove a null hypothesis?
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How to select kernel for SVM?
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How are we defining 'reproducible research'?
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Dubious use of signal processing principles to identify a trend
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Application of wavelets to time-series-based anomaly detection algorithms
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Why haven't robust (and resistant) statistics replaced classical techniques?
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Essential data checking tests
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What are the key statistical concepts that relate to data mining?
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Motivation for Kolmogorov distance between distributions
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Why is multiple comparison a problem?
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James-Stein shrinkage 'in the wild'?
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LOESS that allows discontinuities
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What is the most surprising characterization of the Gaussian (normal) distribution?
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Rigorous definition of an outlier?
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Was mathematics invented or discovered?
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Questions about KL divergence?
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Mathematical Statistics Videos
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Do third order asymptotics exist?
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