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Top Questions
264 votes

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

bayesian mcmc intuition teaching asked Jul 19, 2010 at 23:21
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101 votes

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

correlation regression asked Aug 25, 2010 at 23:53
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87 votes

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

books asked Jul 21, 2010 at 0:44
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82 votes

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

regression multiple-regression terminology multivariate-regression asked Sep 3, 2010 at 18:54
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80 votes

What is a "kernel" in plain English?

kernel-trick kernel-density-estimate asked Sep 9, 2010 at 0:15
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62 votes

What is the objective function of PCA?

pca asked May 2, 2011 at 23:10
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39 votes

How to get all roles that a user is a member of (including inherited roles)?

postgresql users role postgresql-9.3 access-control asked Jan 3, 2014 at 22:07
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30 votes

What's the difference between a probability and a proportion?

probability intuition asked Aug 11, 2010 at 7:24
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22 votes

What limits the number of connections?

postgresql linux max-connections unix asked Mar 19, 2015 at 21:50
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18 votes

How to do incremental backup every hour in Postgres?

postgresql backup windows postgresql-9.4 asked Jul 8, 2013 at 5:17
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Famous statistical quotations
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Risk of tampering when hardware shipment is delayed
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what is the bootstrapped data in data mining?
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