#statistics archive

October 15, 2024
Detailed balance
October 01, 2024
Hypergeometric distribution
September 10, 2024
ritvikmath: Dirichlet distribution
June 18, 2024
Detrapping rates arising from Fermi-Dirac statistics
June 04, 2024
Fermi-Dirac statistics with single conduction level
May 21, 2024
Fermi-Dirac statistics
May 07, 2024
Multi-success heterogeneous detrapping process
April 30, 2024
Mathemaniac: Random walks in 2D and 3D are fundamentally different
April 23, 2024
Multi-success detrapping process
April 09, 2024
Heterogeneous detrapping process
March 12, 2024
Power-law distribution from superposition of normal distributions
February 27, 2024
Power-law distribution from superposition of exponential distributions
February 13, 2024
Power-law gap times in random telegraph noise
February 06, 2024
Mathemaniac: Queuing theory and Poisson process
January 30, 2024
Superposition of Lorentzians with fixed height pulses
January 16, 2024
Obtaining 1/f noise from superposition of Lorentzians
December 26, 2023
D. Sumpter: Four ways of thinking
September 12, 2023
A. Downey: Long-tailed distributions in the natural and engineered world
September 05, 2023
401st post!
June 13, 2023
Waiting time paradox
May 30, 2023
Waiting time distribution
May 16, 2023
Poisson process: Interarrival times
May 09, 2023
3Blue1Brown: But what is the Central Limit Theorem?
May 02, 2023
Poisson process
April 11, 2023
ritvikmath: Beta distribution
March 21, 2023
Riddler's Fan Bus problem
March 07, 2023
Order statistics
February 21, 2023
Riddler's football playoff
February 14, 2023
Numberphile: A Hairy Problem
January 24, 2023
Picky-shy model of dating apps
January 10, 2023
Replacement model of dating apps
December 20, 2022
Dropout model of dating apps
December 06, 2022
Dynamical model of dating apps
November 22, 2022
Statistical physics of dating apps?
November 19, 2022
FIFA World Cup 2022 predictions
November 15, 2022
Can probabilities be negative?
November 08, 2022
Analytical solution of the boring basketball game
October 25, 2022
Boring basketball game
October 18, 2022
Formant: Two envelope problem
October 11, 2022
Bowling percolation puzzle
June 07, 2022
Wireless mouse battery problem
March 22, 2022
Stand-up Maths: How lucky is too lucky?
March 08, 2022
StatQuest: Bootstraping
February 22, 2022
eagereyes: The DataSaurus
February 15, 2022
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
January 25, 2022
Z. Griffiths: The Greedy Billionaire paradox
October 26, 2021
Numberphile: Statistics, storks, and babies
September 28, 2021
Partial auto-correlation function (explained by ritvikmath)
September 14, 2021
Numberphile: Math of being a pig
June 08, 2021
"Solving" Monopoly using Linear Algebra and Matlab
December 01, 2020
Stand-up Maths: Do these scatter plots reveal fraudulent vote-switching in Michigan?
November 24, 2020
COVID-19: Inverting recovery model
November 17, 2020
Stand-up Maths: Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law?
November 10, 2020
COVID-19: Recovery model with convolution
October 27, 2020
COVID-19: Weibull recovery model
October 13, 2020
COVID-19: Estimating mean recovery rate
September 29, 2020
Power-law in exponential growth
September 15, 2020
Reed-Hughes mechanism
September 01, 2020
COVID-19 spatial growth
March 24, 2020
Rank-size distribution and UK census 2011 data set
February 18, 2020
Numberphile: Darts in higher dimensions
February 04, 2020
J. Rogers: How not to fall for Bad Statistics
November 26, 2019
Numberphile's videos on babies
September 17, 2019
The Math PhD Turning Basketball Into a Science
September 03, 2019
Opta Expected Goals
June 04, 2019
Numberphile: Randomness is Random
May 21, 2019
Football data analysis and modeling showcase
March 26, 2019
Hot hand in science and acting
March 12, 2019
Hot hand fallacy?
October 23, 2018
standupmaths: How to estimate a population using statisticians
October 09, 2018
Berkson's paradox
November 27, 2017
One Minute Physics: Simpson's paradox
May 16, 2017
Veritasium: The Bayesian Trap
January 24, 2017
Checking hypotheses and the problem of p-values
April 01, 2013
The Saint Petersburg paradox