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Alecos Papadopoulos

http://alecospapadopoulos.wordpress.com/

PhD in Economics with a heavy dose of, and a not-so-secret love for, Econometrics and Statistics. The PhD thesis is a monograph on the Two-tier Stochastic Frontier model/framework, "The Two-tier Stochastic Frontier (2TSF) framework: Theory and Applications, Models and Tools".

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Asymptotic distribution of sample variance of non-normal sample

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Bound for Arithmetic Harmonic mean inequality for matrices?

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P-value in a two-tail test with asymmetric null distribution

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When Optimal Control fails (?)

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For which distributions does uncorrelatedness imply independence?

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Constructing a discrete r.v. having as support all the rationals in $[0,1]$

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When mathematical statistics outsmarts probability theory

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How do Bayesian Statistics handle the absence of priors?

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Asymptotic consistency with non-zero asymptotic variance - what does it represent?

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When the Central Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers disagree

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Subscript notation in expectations
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Mutual information versus correlation
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Dealing with a PhD student reneging on an agreement to appear in social media
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Why the sum of residuals equals 0 when we do a sample regression by OLS?
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Please explain the waiting paradox
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A generalization of the Law of Iterated Expectations
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Analysis of Kullback-Leibler divergence
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Fundamental equations in economics
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how to derive the mean and variance of a Gaussian Random variable?
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Testing for autocorrelation: Ljung-Box versus Breusch-Godfrey
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Saying "good question" during a seminar talk
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Square of normal distribution with specific variance
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What is the distribution of $R^2$ in linear regression under the null hypothesis? Why is its mode not at zero when $k>3$?
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People pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation
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Identity for simple 1D random walk
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Criticism of Math in Economics
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Examples where method of moments can beat maximum likelihood in small samples?
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Asymptotic distribution of sample variance of non-normal sample
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What is the name of the statistical fallacy whereby outcomes of previous coin flips influence beliefs about subsequent coin flips?
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In simple linear regression, where does the formula for the variance of the residuals come from?
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Extreme Value Theory - Show: Normal to Gumbel
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Omitted variable bias in logistic regression vs. omitted variable bias in ordinary least squares regression
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How can I obtain Leontief and Cobb-Douglas production function from CES function?
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Derivation of the density function of student t-distribution from this big integral.
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Central limit theorem for sample medians
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Why do we care so much about normally distributed error terms (and homoskedasticity) in linear regression when we don't have to?
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Which notation and why: $\text{P}()$, $\Pr()$, $\text{Prob}()$, or $\mathbb{P}()$
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When and why should you write numbers less than 10 in words?
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Why are there two spellings of "heteroskedastic" or "heteroscedastic"?
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