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EngrStudent

Midwest USA

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Mechanical Engineer. Scientist.

Dad of daughters (12yr, 8yr, 2yr, 1yr)

Nerd. Former president of Math club. Presented at MathFEST. Currently aspiring toward statistics: somewhere on the wanna-be to able-to-do-it spectrum.

Husband. (18.4 years) Married to my best friend and an amazing person.

Grew up in the land of rednecks, cactus, and tarantulas.

Nearly no free time, so posting is likely to have intermittency.

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Is Sam Gamgee an orphan?

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Is "spilled milk" a 1600's era euphemism regarding rejected intercourse?

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What is the relationship between the GINI score and the log-likelihood ratio

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How to set default template for new ".R" files in rstudio

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Approach and example of graph clustering in "R"

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Is a wand of lightning bolts made of metal?

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Is kingsfoil derived from Basil?

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Intuitive explanation of logloss

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Box plot notches vs. Tukey-Kramer interval

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Good, useful and characteristic experiments for (optimal) statistical design of experiments

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Bottom to top explanation of the Mahalanobis distance?
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Difference between standard and spherical k-means algorithms
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Why use extreme value theory?
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Random forest vs regression
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Why was Boromir allowed to join the Fellowship of the Ring?
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Convergence of neural network weights
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Central limit theorem for sample medians
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What are some good interview questions for statistical algorithm developer candidates?
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A chart of daily cases of COVID-19 in a Russian region looks suspiciously level to me - is this so from the statistics viewpoint?
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How does PCA improve the accuracy of a predictive model?
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How can I become part of my daughter's life again?
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Can machine learning methods be somehow helpful in solving differential equations?
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Which statistical software is suitable for teaching an undergraduate introductory course of statistics in social sciences?
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Antiballast for flying ship
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Can a random forest be used for feature selection in multiple linear regression?
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How to avoid supervisors with prejudiced views?
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Is Facebook coming to an end?
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What is the distribution for various polyhedral dice all rolled at once?
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Why does Sauron send Grishnákh instead of a Nazgûl to deal with Saruman's Uruk-hai?
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What is the utilitarian purpose of artificial waterfalls?
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What is a dimensionless indicator?
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How find controls limits for CUSUM chart
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Can I drive Elon Musk's Tesla after it's been in space for 100 Years?
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Is the square root of the symmetric Kullback-Leibler divergence a metric?
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Which variables have too much variation?
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Are there useful applications of SVD that use only the smallest singular values?
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Fitting probability distribution to data
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How do I compare the performance of random forests for regression?
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Is cross validation unnecessary for Random Forest?
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Regression with zero inflated continuous response variable using gradient boosting trees and random forest
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