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Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead... by tnecniv on Friday June 09, 2017 @06:15PM (#14525010)
What can you do with the measure theoretic foundations vs the traditional approach? I know graduate classes typically take the measure theoretic approach, but it's never been explained to me why.
Re:Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead... by ryankennedyio on Friday June 09, 2017 @07:08PM (#14525257)
To be honest after one semester, I can't eloquently state it without rambling for a few hours, so I'll direct to this excellent HN comment, which does a much better job than I could:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286604