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Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by mavam on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @09:57PM (#13488346)
Shameless plug of my own attempt to summarize key concepts in probability theory and statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13060021
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by curiousgal on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:27AM (#13490492)
That is precisely the kind of content I expected a cheat sheet on Probability to contain. No offence to OP but if you need a cheat sheet for basic concepts like the ones included in the original post then you'll find it really hard to do grasp any "useful" Probability concepts.
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by max_ on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:49AM (#13490578)
>No offence to OP but if you need a cheat sheet for basic concepts like the ones included in the original post then you'll find it really hard to do grasp any "useful" Probability concepts.

FYI, "Basic" varies from person to person

Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by curiousgal on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:20AM (#13490717)
True but when compared to Measure Theory (the foundation of Probability Theory) almost everyone can agree that those concept are simpler, i.e. basic.
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by max_ on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:49AM (#13491253)
"almost everyone" is not everyone
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by mjfl on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:16AM (#13488951)
That's really cool, how did you go about writing that? Like, do you have a deep background in stats or did you just pick up some books?
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by mavam on Thursday January 26, 2017 @10:37AM (#13492157)
When I took stats classes at UC Berkeley, we covered a lot of ground quickly. The courses (STAT 200A and 200B) where breadth-first in the sense that you just got a short amount of exposure to each concept. But since many concepts build on top of each other, I was needed a way to make sure I fully understood the previous step. I started with writing down the most basic axioms that most of the rest would found on. (Not really in a fundamental sense, e.g., I did not go into sigma algebras and measure theory in more detail, but in a practical sense). The sheer amount of identities and distribution relationships were initially hard to remember, so those I jotted down next. Then more advanced concepts built on the simpler ones, and the process repeated itself.
Re:A Cheat Sheet on Probability by ronald_raygun on Thursday January 26, 2017 @01:32AM (#13489195)
Wow, this is a really nice sheet. I did a stats master's and this seems like it covers 90%+ of what I learned. A++