Posts tagged: statistics

I asked Hadi, half-jokingly, whether Bach was the Justin Bieber of his time. Are we just listening to the most "popular" artists of the 1700s and calling it high culture? And the flip side: will...

I recently got introduced to this game called Can't Stop and it got me thinking about probabilities. You know how it is - you start playing a dice game and suddenly you're knee-deep in combinatorics...

A frequentist vs Bayesian case

James Tanton is full of seemingly innocent and amusing questions. One of the questions that kept me busy one night is this one:

Since first time I that have encountered a statistical "paradox" I have this feeling that my explanations for what is the "right" answer might not be correct and it might be the case that I'm just...

Disclaimer: I'm not a statistician, and no, correlation does not mean causation. Also, I'm not a seismologist. And none of the followings are necessarily true. I'm just stretching my thoughts here!

Let's say we have a graph (i.e. network), and we want to cluster the vertices (nodes).  Here, think of the nodes as people, agents, oscillators, some dynamic being, and the edges... the edges tell...

My friend asked me this: Put balls into $n$ buckets uniformly at random and count $h$ the number of buckets with at least one ball in them. What is the expected value of number of balls $k$?

I recently participated at the Fields Medal Symposium held at the Fields Institute in Toronto, in honour of Martin Hairer, one of the recipients of the medal in 2014. His work revolves around...

Officially, I first learned about randomized algorithms and derandomizing them in a course called Randomness in Computations, offered by John Hitchcock at University of Wyoming. It wasn't until then...