Neil McGuigan

Vancouver, Canada

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MBA Finance
BA Econ
Data Mining
C#, Javascript, VB, SQL

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What is the single most influential book every statistician should read?

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How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to a layperson?

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What's the difference between correlation and simple linear regression?

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How to find principal components without matrix algebra?

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Explain the difference between multiple regression and multivariate regression, with minimal use of symbols/math

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Explain what a kernel is, in plain English

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How do I make an HTML table from a database table?

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Why does my hard drive LED light blink every second?

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How does pair trading work?

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What are the differences among latent semantic analysis (LSA), latent semantic indexing (LSI), and singular value decomposition (SVD)?

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