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applications of statistics and statistical modeling

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Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard': how did they do this?

This message in a Reuter's article from 25.02.2019 is currently all over the news: Evidence for man-made global warming hits 'gold standard' [Scientists] said confidence that human activities were raising the heat at the Earth’s surface had reached…
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Good games for learning statistical thinking?

Are there any games that get the player "think like a statistician"? For example, lightbot gets you to "think like a programmer" (in a very basic way). Are there any games - designed for entertainment or teaching - that can help get one comfortable…
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Real-life examples of common distributions

I am a grad student developing an interest for statistics. I like the material over-all, but I sometimes have a hard time thinking about applications to real life. Specifically, my question is about commonly used statistical distributions (normal -…
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What are some interesting and well-written applied statistics papers?

What are some good papers describing applications of statistics that would be fun and informative to read? Just to be clear, I'm not really looking for papers describing new statistical methods (e.g., a paper on least angle regression), but rather…
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Do you have recommendations for books to self-teach Applied Statistics at the graduate level?

I took several statistics courses in college but I found that my education was very theory driven. I was wondering if any of you had a text in Applied Statistics (at the graduate level) that you recommend or have had good experience with.
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Good summaries (reviews, books) on various applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)?

Are there any good summaries (reviews, books) on various applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)? I've seen Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice, but this books seems a bit old. Are there more update books on various applications of MCMC in…
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What is the best out-of-the-box 2-class classifier for your application?

Rules: one classifier per answer vote up if you agree downvote/remove duplicates. put your application in the comment
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James-Stein shrinkage 'in the wild'?

I am taken by the idea of James-Stein shrinkage (i.e. that a nonlinear function of a single observation of a vector of possibly independent normals can be a better estimator of the means of the random variables, where 'better' is measured by squared…
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Proper regression for determining correlations between derivatives of functions

Say we have a permanent-magnet DC motor that roughly obeys the system equation $\ddot{x}(t) = \alpha \dot{x}(t) + \beta u(t) + \gamma$, where $x(t)$ is the displacement of the rotor, and $u(t)$ the applied voltage, at time $t$. Say we wish to…
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How does the Kinect use random forests?

I read on this site that apparently the Kinect uses the random forests algorithm for machine learning in some way. Can anyone explain what it uses random forests for, and how their approach works?
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Good examples/books/resources to learn about applied machine learning (not just ML itself)

I've taken an ML course previously, but now that I am working with ML related projects at my job, I am struggling quite a bit to actually apply it. I'm sure the stuff I'm doing has been researched/dealt with before, but I can't find specific…
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Approximating the relative quantities of coins in Canada

Would it be possible to approximate accurately the relative quantities of Loonies, Twoonies, quarters, dimes, nickles (and perhaps the discontinued penny) in circulation from simply obtaining a large enough sample of coins through everyday use? By…
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How Do You Choose The Number of Bins To Use For A Chi-Squared GOF Test?

I'm working on developing a physics lab about radioactive decay, and in analyzing sample data I've taken, I ran into a statistics issue that surprised me. It is well known that the number of decays per unit time by a radioactive source is Poisson…
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How useful is the CLT in applications?

My lecturer just covered the Lindeberg-Lévy central limit theorem and the multivariate version, the Lindeberg-Feller CLT. I understood the basic concept and I can derive it, etc. But it would help my understanding a lot if someone could explain how…
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Applications of Data Mining in economics

I am looking for a thesis topic for my Applied Economics degree where I can use Data Mining/Machine Learning for some kind of prediction. Do you guys have any good ideas about what I could do? My first thought was credit scoring, but that seems a…
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