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Famous Statistical Quotes (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by mgdo on Oct 6, 2017 | past
900 out of 1000 people say a car is blue, what's the probability it is blue? (stats.stackexchange.com)
72 points by tekromancr on Aug 24, 2017 | past | 67 comments
Principal component analysis in gradually increasing detail (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mrkgnao on Jan 26, 2017 | past
Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors and eigenvalues (stats.stackexchange.com)
5 points by jordigh on Jan 26, 2017 | past
How-To-Explain Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to Your Grandmother (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by seycombi on Jan 25, 2017 | past
What is the intuition behind the Beta distribution? (stats.stackexchange.com)
4 points by sdenton4 on Oct 27, 2016 | past
Maximum likelihood estimation in laymen terms (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by naveen99 on July 22, 2016 | past
What is a Data Scientist? (stats.stackexchange.com)
3 points by stared on Feb 11, 2016 | past
Which “mean” to use and when? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by turrini on Feb 3, 2016 | past
“What happens if the variables are sorted independently before regression?” (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by idunning on Dec 8, 2015 | past
George Lucas Movie Experiment (The Drunkard's Walk) (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by scottmcdot on Nov 22, 2015 | past
Why is a t-test necessary given that we have the z-test? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by adenadel on Sept 10, 2015 | past
Explain “Curse of dimensionality” to a child (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by shagunsodhani on Sept 6, 2015 | past
The sleeping beauty paradox (stats.stackexchange.com)
77 points by xtacy on Aug 31, 2015 | past | 80 comments
Should parsimony really still be the gold standard in modelling? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by mbq on July 28, 2015 | past
What are common statistical sins? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by luu on June 4, 2015 | past
What are beanplots? (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by retrodict on March 29, 2015 | past
The Statistical Sins (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by jeremynixon on March 14, 2015 | past
How would you explain Markov Chain Monte Carlo to a layperson? (stats.stackexchange.com)
3 points by aethertap on Jan 14, 2015 | past
What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon's entropy? (stats.stackexchange.com)
3 points by stared on Dec 17, 2014 | past
Which “mean” to use and when? (stats.stackexchange.com)
4 points by lewisoneill on Dec 10, 2014 | past
Bayesians: slaves of the likelihood function? (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by misiti3780 on Sept 1, 2014 | past
It is hard to draw a rack of Scrabble tiles that does not contain a valid word (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by DanBC on Aug 9, 2014 | past
How odd is a cluster of plane accidents? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by linux_devil on July 29, 2014 | past
Data mining – Skills hard to find in machine learners? – Cross Validated (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by gauravagarwalr on June 26, 2014 | past
Statistics of benchmarking (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by alphydan on June 10, 2014 | past
When should you center your data and when should you standardize? (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by baptou12 on May 4, 2014 | past
Machine Learning vs Statistics? (stats.stackexchange.com)
2 points by sshravan on April 21, 2014 | past
Is normality testing 'essentially useless'? (stats.stackexchange.com)
1 point by sshravan on April 4, 2014 | past
Famous statistician quotes (stats.stackexchange.com)
3 points by aet on March 22, 2014 | past

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